Meet Josh, a seasoned detective working the streets of New York City with his trusted partner David. That is the opening promise of Krivam Goel's book, and Krivam was 8 years old when he made it.
Krivam is a mystery lover and a footballer who reads everything he can get his hands on. You can feel both in the writing. The stories move fast, full of twists, chases, and clues, the way a book feels when its author actually loves the genre rather than tolerating it.
Why the genre matters
Detective fiction is unforgiving for a young writer. You cannot fake a plot that has to pay off. A clue planted on page 3 has to matter on page 30. Krivam keeps that contract, which tells you something about how carefully he reads.
We did very little to this book beyond the ordinary work of editing and publishing it properly, with a real ISBN, on Amazon and in stores. The voice is his. The pacing is his. The confidence to write a sequel-sounding title, Josh Solves Yet Another Case, as a debut, is very much his.
If your child reads three books a week and keeps narrating their own version at dinner, this is what that can turn into.
