In incisive prose, Faleiro, who offers no opinion on what actually happened, examines India’s family honor system and the grueling lives of lower caste women. When officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation, India’s equivalent of the FBI, took over the botched case, they concluded it was suicide, not murder, and the girls took their own lives out of shame after being caught in a field with a boy. It is translated into French, Italian and Polish. It was a New York Times Editor's Choice, a Sunday Times Book of the Year and a Human Rights Watch Book Club pick. Was it rape and murder, or suicide? Months of bungling police, corrupt politicians, lying witnesses, and missing evidence resulted in the arrests of Padma’s boyfriend, his two brothers, and two police officers in a case of a gang rape gone wrong. The Good Girls is published by Grove Atlantic, Bloomsbury UK and Bloomsbury Australia, Penguin Random House India and Knopf Canada. They were found the next morning hanging from a mango tree. An eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh, crammed into less than one square mile of land. Padma and Lalli, who tended the family’s goats, disappeared one night in 2014.

By the award-winning writer of 'Beautiful. In this powerful account, Faleiro ( Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars) tells the tragic story of two cousins, 16-year-old Padma Shakya and 14-year-old Lalli Shakya, who grew up in a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Good Girls is published by Grove Atlantic, Bloomsbury UK and Bloomsbury Australia, Penguin Random House India and Knopf Canada. The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro is published by Bloomsbury Circus (RRP £16.99). Lunch with Sonia Faleiro in conversation with Isaac Chotiner discussing 'The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing'.