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Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji University, and a well-known public speaker and writer on issues of nature and sustainability. She is internationally recognized for her scholarship on sustainability, with honors that include the 2009 Cozzarelli Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences, the 2013 Elinor Ostrom Senior Scholar award, and the 2017 Clarivate Web of Science award for interdisciplinary research in India.

Her non-fiction books include Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present and Future, and two books co-authored with Seema Mundoli – So Many Leaves, and Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities, which received the 2020 Publishing Next Awards for best English non-fiction book in India.

Harini lives in Bangalore with her family, in a home filled with maps. She loves trees, mysteries, and traditional recipes. The Bangalore Detectives Club is her first crime fiction novel, published by Pegasus Books in the US, Constable in the UK, and Hachette in India/rest of the world – the book was in the New York Times Notable Books of 2022 list, and has been nominated for an Agatha and Lefty award for best first novel. 

Murder Under A Red Moon, book 2 in the series, is out on March 30, 2023.

You can pre-order it online at https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Under-Red-Moon-Detectives/dp/163936370X, or through your local independent bookstore.