Goddess of the North

Name: Goddess of the North
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Georgina Kamsika
ISBN: 9781705240908

Author: Georgina Kamsika

Narrator: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Detective Inspector Sara Nayar is a goddess. Literally. A Hindu goddess accidentally brought to England during Queen Victoria's reign. Working now as a police detective, Sara survives on humanity's innate faith in law and order.

Sheffield is a city of many gods, however, and when Sara witnesses a murder, she knows the perpetrator is divine. As a goddess of order, she must solve the crime before the god can kill again, but thousands of years living as a human has left her spiritually weak.

Vulnerable in ways she hasn't felt since leaving India, Sara fights to balance her mortal and immortal lives as the murders around her escalate. And with tensions amongst her fellow divinity on the rise, Sara is running out of time. If she can't restore order and find balance in the chaos, the city itself might pay the price.

Set in a vividly realized Northern city, where gods coexist with a balance of faith, Goddess of the North is a thrilling urban fantasy steeped in multicultural mythology. A murder mystery at heart, it's an exploration of identity, love, faith, and the transformative powers of self-acceptance.

About Georgina Kamsika

Georgina Kamsika was born in South Yorkshire, England, to Anglo Indian immigrant parents. After attending a local Catholic school, she escaped to a university in Nottingham and began writing. Many years later, she began taking writing seriously and has published short stories in magazines and the odd anthology.

She admits to being a geek, loves reading books and comics and playing computer games, and enjoys working on the internet, because it's a fun place to be.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Georgina

It's my book so I'm allowed to give myself 5 stars.......more

Goodreads review by Maritina

Sara is a Hindu goddess who has rejected her divinity and lives in London, working as a police investigator instead. One day, weird and tragic events start taking place, such as people acting weird, people dying, floods etc etc. And Sara's godly sense is tingling, because she can tell that behind thes......more

Goodreads review by Wayne

This is a novel that is really about two stories. On the one hand, it's a police procedural taking place in the British city of Sheffield, with murder, suspects, and the kind of investigation that wouldn't be out of place in UK programming like the Midsomer Murders. On the other hand, however, it's......more

Goodreads review by Patrice

Move over DCI Banks: There's a new copper in Yorkshire. Saraswathi is not just a DI, she's a goddess, and the murder she's solving is not just a murder, it involves ancient gods, new gods, and a new conspiracy that is very modern indeed. As with any good police procedural, setting is a character. Ka......more

Goodreads review by frances

✨ 3.5 Sara is a Hindu goddess of order. Daughter to a goddess of chaos, their differences could not be more drastic. Unable to forgive her mother for events that transpired more than three thousand years ago, Sara left her true goddess form to live, more or less, as a human. Without believers to prov......more