When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera.
Siriwathi Perera doesn’t quite know where she’s going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty-eight. The true-crime podcasts that keep Siri company as she drives don’t do much to make up for the legal career she imagined for herself, or the brother she’s grieving.
When public defender Amaya Fernando gets into her cab, they make a quick connection through their shared Sri Lankan roots. Siri, whose social circle is limited to her grade-school best friend, Alex, thinks things might finally be looking up with this new potential friendship. But she’s suddenly dropped into her own true crime when she discovers her next passenger murdered in the backseat, and she has to call Amaya sooner than she’d expected.
Pinned as the obvious and only suspect, and desperate to clear her name, Siri chases down leads across the boroughs of New York City with Amaya’s help. But with her court date looming, they have just five days to find out who really killed the midnight passenger—or Siri’s life will be over before she can even truly live it.
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My Review - 4 of 5 stars -
I enjoyed the characters, the setting, and the story. This was like a locked-door mystery, a dead body in a locked taxicab. Siriwathi had a fascination with true crime and now found herself in the middle of one. She learned quickly how the real world works. Her fortuitous encounter with Amaya who came to her rescue helped bring new people and friends into her life. There were several twists, one that I was a bit discouraged with, but overall this was a good story.
I received an ARC through Netgalley, and this is my unsolicited review.
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