Dead to them
Author - Smita Bhattacharya
Language - English
Genre - Suspense Thriller
Publisher - Treeshade books
About the book
Moira Madhwa is a typical young, beautiful and successful urban woman—until the day she goes missing. Her friends start looking for her but quickly realise nothing is as it seems. Moira has kept devastating secrets that could wreck their lives, if revealed. As days roll by, one by one, skeletons tumble out of closets, and each of Moira's friends appear guilty. But did one among them hate her enough to do the worst?
A nail-biting, psychological suspense-thriller, Dead to Them weaves a web of deception, lies, and paranoia in the city of Mumbai, where every face hides a dark story, and uncovering it can lead to disastrous consequences.
About the author
SMITA BHATTACHARYA writes atmospheric cosy and psychological mystery fiction. She is also a management consultant, coffee lover, and gipsy-in-her-head. She lives in Mumbai but has solo travelled to 40+ countries and thus, her stories are heavily inspired by her travels and by those she meets.
Smita has six published books and counting. She has worked in a vineyard, in a newsroom, in a school, in a library, in a bank, in an audit firm. She has too many stories to tell and not enough time.
Smita thrives on crime and coffee. Though she prefers cafés, she occasionally also hangs as @smitabe on Twitter and Instagram. You can read her colourful travel and life stories at www.smitabhattacharya.com.
My take:
This is a mysterious story that keeps you intrigued right from the first chapter.
Moira, a beautiful, young independant woman goes missing one fine day. Everyone is worried, her colleagues, her boss, her friends. Each begins their search for her in their own ways.
But as the story progresses, we get to know that everything is not as simple as it looks. Each person is hiding a dark secret. And Moira's disappearance threatens to bring all secrets out in the open.
The cliche is that this is not the first time that Moira is absconding. So people are skeptical whether this is the repeat of the last time, or if it's more serious than it seems.
Neither is Moira what she appears to be. As layers and layers of mysteries are uncovered the story keeps taking new turns.
The language is lucid and easy flowing. All characters are well formed and stay true to their self. We can empathise with each characters POV as we read the story.
The suspense is held on till the very end, and reader is kept guessing and double guessing till the very end.
The cover page is nicely designed and reaches out to the reader to pick it up.
I rate it five stars.
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