![]() ![]() ![]() The plot of this novel is set in Acker’s Gap, West Virginia, United States, and revolves around the happenings in the life of the Raythune County attorney named Bell Elkins. ![]() It was released by the Minotaur Books publishing house in the year 2012. The first novel of the Bell Elkins series was published under the title ‘A Killing in the Hills’. All the novels of the series feature the central character in the form of Bell Elkins, who is depicted as a prosecuting attorney based in the Raythune County in West Virginia. The series consists of a total of 5 novels and 3 novellas published between the years 20. At Michigan State University, Lakshmanan is also pursuing a Graduate Specialization in Women's and Gender Studies.The Bell Elkins series is a series of successful novels based on the mystery and thriller genres and written by one of the Pulitzer Prize winning and popular American authors named Julia Keller. Her research interests also include the intersections of migration, skin color and its impacts on entrepreneurial success transnational constructions of gender violence as perceived by individuals and institutions and commercial surrogacy. In her research till date she analyzes the process of individual and social identity reconstruction among South Asian women who transition from being employed in India to being unemployed in the United States, post migration with their spouses. She is working towards developing her research on South Asian families within the context of transnationalism and feminist sociology. The experience of living in both India and the United States, coupled with academic training in the disciplines of sustainable development, political science, and sociology, have developed and refined Lakshmanan's research interests in the areas of Gender, Migration, Family and Development. She obtained her Masters in Sociology from the University of Houston in 2015. Biography: Praveena Lakshmanan is currently a second year doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. ![]()
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