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Our Own Adi Tantimedh Writes 'Her Nightly Embrace' Starring Sendhil Ramamurthy As Ravi, PI

Adi Tantimedh is the longest serving writer on Bleeding Cool. Apart from me, obviously. His Look! It Moves! columns have been running regularly since 2009 and in total would easily fill a large novel.

But no need, because he'd written one of those as well, that has just been announced by Entertainment Weekly.7

Her Nightly Embrace, will be released on November 1st by Atria Books, a new crime fiction series starring a failed religious scholar-turned-detective, Ravi PI – to be played by Sendhil Ramamurthy in a planned TV adaptation. The Amazon listing says,

The first in a trilogy of whip-smart novels—currently in development as a TV series set to star Sendhil Ramamurthy (NBC's Heroes and Heroes Reborn)—about a destructive private investigator and his eccentric coworkers, who handle cases so high-profile that they never make the headlines.

Ravi Chandra Singh is the last guy you'd expect to become a private detective. A failed religious scholar, he now works for Golden Sentinels, an upmarket London private investigations agency. His colleagues are a band of gleefully amoral and brilliant screw-ups: Ken and Clive, a pair of brutal ex-cops who are also a gay couple; Mark Chapman, a burned-out stoner hiding a great mind; Marcie Holder, a cheerful former publicist; Benjamin Lee, a techie prankster from South London; David Okri, an ambitious lawyer from a well-connected Nigerian immigrant family; and Olivia Wong, an upper-class Hong Kong financial analyst hiding her true skills as one of the most dangerous hackers in the world—all under the watchful eye of Roger Golden, wheeler-dealer extraordinaire, and his mysterious office manager, Cheryl Hughes.

Thrust into a world where the rich, famous, and powerful hire him to solve their problems and wash their dirty laundry, Ravi finds himself in over his head with increasingly gonzo and complex cases – and the recent visions that he's been having of Hindu gods aren't helping. As Ravi struggles to stay ahead of danger, he wonders if the things he's seeing are a delusion – or if he might, in fact, be an unrecognized shaman of the modern world…

Entertainment Weekly have an exclusive preview of the novel here.

To get your first peek into Ravi's world, check out our exclusive cover reveal and excerpt, below:

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