Hemangini Dutt Majumder returns with her latest Gothic detective mystery,\u00a0The Scratch and Sniff Chronicles\u00a0(Niyogi Books), featuring a new kind of sleuth\u2014one who can sniff out more than just lies. The book was launched at Delhi\u2019s Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, amidst a laughter-filled conversation with a panel featuring Patricia Loison, director of Alliance Fran\u00e7aise; actor Padmapriya Janakiraman; RJ Sarthak; chef Sadaf Hussain; and the author herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The evening set in the jasmine-scented, flower-filled auditorium was designed to evoke Neelbari, the mysterious ancestral estate in the novel, set in West Bengal\u2019s Chandannagar, mirroring the immersive world of Ollie\u2019s story.<\/p>\n
Olympia Chatterg\u00e9\u2014Ollie, for short\u2014is a 29-year-old sommelier with an aversion to working out, a deep love for food and random Nat Geo factoids, and one highly unusual gift: a hyper-sensitive nose which picks up random fragrances, that often has her jokingly comparing herself to Batman. Nearly every page contains a smell-note: the comforting familiarity of talcum powder, the sharpness of garam masala, the antiseptic zing of Ultracin gel, or the unmistakable aroma of Koraishutir Kochuri (fried bread with pea stuffing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hemangini Dutt Majumder returns with her latest Gothic detective mystery,\u00a0The Scratch and Sniff Chronicles\u00a0(Niyogi Books), featuring a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11693,64,63,457,134,11695,11694],"class_list":{"0":"post-9916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-alliance-francaise-de-delhi","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-gothic-mystery","14":"tag-hemangini-dutt-majumder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}