Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Bandit Queens | 2023 | Buy |
Parini Shroff made a strong impression with her debut novel The Bandit Queens (2023). The book is set in a rural Indian village where a woman named Geeta has been a social outcast since her husband vanished five years earlier. When her neighbors start assuming she killed him and ask for similar help with their own husbands, a chain of dark comedy follows.
Shroff was born in India and raised in the United States. The Bandit Queens drew comparisons to other darkly comic crime novels and was praised for its balance of humor with serious commentary on domestic abuse and women’s limited options in patriarchal communities.