At dawn, the groom is found dead in the locked bridal suite — the door bolted from the inside, the window forty feet above the courtyard.

Wedding planner Zoya Khan has two hundred guests arriving for the baraat in six hours, and two families demanding silence. She starts asking questions anyway — about the white fiber on the bolt, the missing sleeping pills, the replaced kurta drawstring, and the brother who was in a hurry to check out before breakfast.

A classic locked-room mystery wrapped in marigolds and wedding lights, Dead Before the Baraat gives Zoya six hours to find a killer hiding among the guests.