
Crimson Fall
A Ronny & Jo Mystery
By Tara Dee | October, 2023
About the Book
A search for a missing 26-year-old sends Aniruddha Jha and Joyita Roy—Ronny & Jo—into the underbelly of IT businesses in Washington, D.C., and the private lives of vulnerable Indian tech workers.
With deception and lies at every turn, there’s more than one disturbing reason for the young man’s disappearance, and the stakes are raised with a deadly encounter on the Capital Beltway. Someone is out to terminate Ronny and Jo’s search.
CRIMSON FALL is the first book in the exciting new series: RONNY & JO MYSTERIES.
Tech multimillionaire couple Ronny & Jo thought they had their hands full with startup mentoring, kickboxing, and managing an NGO until they figured out a new life skill: solving mysteries. This vocation sees them driving around Washington, D.C.'s national capital region, chasing crooks and killers lurking within the Indian community.
A tech startup mentor, keyboardist for a D.C.-area band, and prolific home chef, fifty-year-old Ronny, who sold his Cloud startup company in 2016, is the reluctant strategist dragged by Jo into investigations.
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About the Author
Tara Dee is the combined pen name of longtime partners Swati Chanda and Narendra Desirazu.
Swati is the author of Drowning Fish (Hachette) and Switcheroos!: Topsy-Turvy Mysteries of Markiposa (Penguin-Puffin). She has taught literature in colleges, worked for nonprofit organizations, helped grow crops on a farm, and is devoted to upcycled and repurposed art projects. She currently lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
Narendra has worked in the IT industry where he founded and sold a tech startup, ran a business renting art to corporates, and built an organic farm growing specialty limes. He currently teaches at a university in Washington, D.C. Narendra’s science fiction and slice-of-life stories have been published in anthologies in the US.


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