Nine Dolls

An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a shocking final twist.

My first holiday with my husband’s friends. A remote Scottish manor. Nine sacred dolls. One brutal murder.

We find the doll shattered on the floor, its broken pieces scattered like a warning. That’s when everything starts to fall apart.

Now the power is out. A storm has trapped us here. And someone is dead.

We’ve only been married three months. And our first holiday as man and wife is spending ten days in a secluded Scottish manor with my husband’s old friends. I’ve never met them before. From the moment I arrive, I feel like an outsider.

And it’s not just his friends. Things haven’t been normal since the first day, when someone moved the dolls. I told them not to ― never move the dolls before the tenth day of Navaratri, the Hindu Festival of Dolls. They’re not toys. They’re part of a sacred tradition. But no one listened. Even Dhruv ― my husband ― told me to stop being silly.

I know they’re hiding something. I can’t trust any of them ― not even the man I married. Now one of us is dead. One of us is a killer. Am I going to make it out of here alive?

Rupa Mahadevan grew up on the southern coast of India and has called Scotland her home for over fifteen years. She currently lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two children. When she is not grappling with Excel in her day job, she loves to read and dream up stories of her own. NINE DOLLS is her first novel.