MURDER IN HEAVEN (GEORGE MATHEW)

Murder in Heaven, set in a small village in the Kerala of 1970’s, portraying the lives of six characters pitted against the forces of caste and dowry system, religious divides, abject poverty, superstitions, myths, alcoholism, communism and fatalism Tomichen, the hero with six sisters to wed off and no dowry to pay for, Thoma, the powerful but arrogant landlord who seeks vengeance for his son’s murder, Paili, the downtrodden low caste, who wants a piece land to live on, Sukumaran, who battles his conflicts against deep rooted superstitions, Ismayil, hoping to free his son imprisoned for murder and Mathai Chettan, the poor retiree, who battles court cases to get justice for his wife run over and killed by a rich man. MURDER IN HEAVEN takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster ride as it explores the lives of these six characters and the nostalgic world they belong to as the plot thickens and powers to its climactic denouement.