Author - Nish Amarnath
Publisher - Harpercollins
Genre - thriller/fiction
Pages - 324
Format - paperback
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The story revolves around protagonist Sandhya Raman, stringer for the BBC, who lives as a paying guest with a decent family, the Sawants. Everything appears normal but suddenly Sandy finds something mysterious and abnormal about the family members. One thing leads to another and Sandy soon finds herself involved in an investigation which places her and her friends under the threat of losing their lives . Grab the book and read the nerve chilling mystery!
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Review -
1) The cover of the book is eye catching and perfect.
2) The title of the book is totally relevant to the content.
3) The plot of the story is interesting and spectacular. It is a perfect blend of crime, suspense, thrill with lots of twist and turns.
4) The story is a perfect emotional drama and all the emotions have been beautifully narrated by the author.
5) The author has amazingly described the places and circumstances as the story is set in London.
6) The book is divided into 17 chapters and is reader-friendly.
7) Language used is simple and lucid.
8) The characters are well developed and described by the author. Sandy's character is portrayed well.
9) The flow of the book is fast paced which keeps the readers hooked till the end.
10) Overall, a page turner, psychological thriller.
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Rating - 4.3/5
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I recommend this book to all, specially thriller lovers out there.
About the Author
Nish Amarnath debuted as an author at eighteen with The Voyage to Excellence, a critically acclaimed business biography. She has received awards for her short stories from Scholastic and Infosys, among others. Amarnath was managing editor at Euromoney Institutional Investor and a senior journalist at S&P Global, formerly McGraw Hill Financial, where she was nominated for the Alerian MLP Awards [AMMYS] in 2017. She previously led a public diplomacy mandate for the UK Government on behalf of an affiliate of French multinational, Publicis Groupe. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Street, International Business Times, India Today, The Hindu, The New Indian Express and Times of India's city supplements, among others. She holds post-graduate degrees in media communications and journalism from The London School of Economics and Columbia University, where she was a James W. Robins reporting fellow. Her enterprise story, 'Citi and its Scuffle with the Watchdogs', originally a Master's thesis for Columbia University reviewed by Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, was published separately as a book in 2014. A former Londoner, she now lives in New York City.
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