We launch our 2025 Book Club with the thrilling, Unfinished Business by Miles Franklin Award–winning Author Shankari Chandran.
Chandran uses literary fiction to explore injustice, dispossession and what happens to society when governments subvert civil liberties. In this espionage thriller, Chandran has created a vivid, gripping spy story set in the shocking reality of the end of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009.
Decades of civil war and bloodshed are coming to an end – in the capital, Colombo, a tenacious journalist is murdered, execution-style, on a busy street, with no witnesses.
With pressure to find the killer, a CIA agent is sent to seek justice for the journalist’s death, with strict instructions: find something, but not too much. It’s the agent’s first time returning to the island after the last mission went tragically awry and it turns out they have more than one ghost to lay to rest.
Amid the international scheming and jostling for stakes in post-war Sri Lanka, this tale follows a trail of secrets on a mission to uncover a truth worth killing for.
Riveting from start to finish, this is one drama that will keep you on the edge of your pool lounger. Dive in.
