Shanu Shah is a Novelist known for The Victim and Retributioner, they are successful and loved by many a readers across the world Born into a family of modest means, Shanu brought humour, intelligence and cynical snap to her characters and her subject matter, which subverted the expectations of the popular and sentimental thrillers of the era. Her audacious social and political commentary realism won Shanu approval from the readers. Shanu's canon of work holds a mirror to new generation of readers.