Silent fires
Author : Poojitha Prasad
Language : English
Genre : Suspense Thriller
Publisher : Notionpress
About the book
Inspector Ashish Bharadwaj is arrogant and hot-tempered, but he’s usually right about things. His brother, Manav, is quiet and intuitive. He is also brilliant at solving cases.
When Shravya Chandra, wife of Arun Chandra the film star, goes missing – Ashish and Manav have their own hunches. Ashish is out to prove Arun Chandra’s guilt. But Manav wants to know more about Shravya’s old friend, Anchal because he’s certain that she is hiding something big.
They both can’t be right, of course.
Ashish doesn’t want to be wrong; he’s never wrong. And Manav would give anything to snatch a victory from under his brother’s nose.
Who’s right? And at what cost are they going to win?
Since everyone’s looking only for what they want to see, will they ever actually find out what happened to Shravya Chandra?
And so begins the battle of egos, the endless search for a killer and the unravelling of secrets…
My take
Silent fires is an amalgamation of suspense, thrill, murder mystery, love, betrayal, complicated relationships, all in the perfect dose to form a rock solid narrative.
Shravya Chandra, the wife of superhit movie star Arun Chandra, disappears one fine day from amidst the crowd that has gathered to celebrate the stars birthday. She has returned from a girls trip with four of her best friends. Being a high profile case which soon turns from disappearance to murder, inspector Ashish Bharadwaj is pressurized from all sides to solve it. Being straight forward and no-nonsense kind, Ashish develops a cold war with Arun. Ashish's brother Manav, who is a photographer by profession and gets involved with crime documentaries, also gets deeply involved in the case. Ashish and Manav are chalk and cheese, and both work in ways totally different from each other. What happens next?
The narration is nice with a lucid flow. The story seems slow initially but picks up pace fast enough. The suspense is twisted and well developed and leaves the reader wanting to keep reading till the very end. Character development is flawless and every character stays true to itself.
The book cover is nicely designed but is too simple, could have been more effective had it been a bit murkier.
I rate it 4.5 stars.
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