Sharmishtha Shenoy is the author of the Vikram Rana Mystery series, which includes Vikram Rana Investigates (2016), A Season for Dying (2017), Behind the Scenes (2017), Fatal Fallout (2019), Silent Witness (2020), A Thousand Scars: Book 1-The Hunter (2022) and Book 2-The Hunted (2022). She has also published a book of short stories, Quirky Tales (2019), and a novel Murder in the Chowdhury Palace (2022). She has an M Tech degree from the University of Reading, Great Britain. She was an IT professional and worked for TCS, Satyam, Infosys, and Microsoft.