Abhinav Ramnarayan is a London-based Indian writer who has had a wide-ranging career as a journalist for publications including The Guardian, Reuters and Bloomberg. His debut novel, Last Resort, is a chilling murder mystery and a social commentary set in a quiet mountain retreat in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, India. The son of journalists and writers Gowri and V Ramnarayan and the great-grandson of renowned freedom fighter and Tamil novelist "Kalki" Krishnamurthy, he grew up on a diet of English and Tamil literature classics, Hindu mythology and epic tales from all over the world. He took this one step further by studying literature at Loyola College in Chennai before getting his first job as a journalist at the Deccan Chronicle, also in Chennai. After working at a handful of Indian newspapers, he went on to study journalism at the University of Sheffield in England and subsequently secured the coveted graduate trainee position at The Guardian in 2008, out of a pool of over 400 applicants. He went on to work for Reuters for several years, but along the way rediscovered his first love - story telling. His debut novel, Last Resort, has been described as "page-turning", "rich" and "a beautifully described tableau of the richness and beauty of South India" by readers. Abhinav currently works for Bloomberg as a journalist, is working on a sequel to Last Resort, and lives in East London with his wife Anne.