Dear friends,
I've recently won the second prize in a novel-writing contest organized by Vishwakarma Publications, Pune. It is for my debut novel titled 'The Mysterious Basement of Summer City'. It's a whodunit thriller that keeps the readers at the edge of their seats, till the very end.
Priya
Excerpt from the novel:
“It is six months since our beloved ones have disappeared in that basement. Yet there’s no progress in the investigations. We demand an answer”, said Mrs. Ravi Kiran. She was an average looking lady of medium height who looked way older than her 33 years of age. Only she knew how hard it was to live the life of a single parent in that city. She had no means of income after her husband’s death as she had been a devoted housewife ever since her marriage. Her only son Shekhar clung to her legs as she made that impassioned statement. She pulled the three-year old into her arms, as tears flowed down her lined cheeks.
I've recently won the second prize in a novel-writing contest organized by Vishwakarma Publications, Pune. It is for my debut novel titled 'The Mysterious Basement of Summer City'. It's a whodunit thriller that keeps the readers at the edge of their seats, till the very end.
Priya
Excerpt from the novel:
“It is six months since our beloved ones have disappeared in that basement. Yet there’s no progress in the investigations. We demand an answer”, said Mrs. Ravi Kiran. She was an average looking lady of medium height who looked way older than her 33 years of age. Only she knew how hard it was to live the life of a single parent in that city. She had no means of income after her husband’s death as she had been a devoted housewife ever since her marriage. Her only son Shekhar clung to her legs as she made that impassioned statement. She pulled the three-year old into her arms, as tears flowed down her lined cheeks.
It was the meeting of those who had
lost someone in that killer basement. They
had formed an Association named ‘Summer City’s Victims’ Association’ (SCVA). The members met every month and planned their
next course of action in the wake of the current developments in investigations
which were regularly printed in all the local and national dailies. So far, all of them had given interviews to
various dailies, publications and news channels. They had also answered the police officials’
repetitive and persistent queries ad
nauseum. They were tired,
frustrated, harassed and at their wits’ end.
All that each of them wanted was closure. Either information about their loved ones’
whereabouts or their remains! Neither
seemed to be forthcoming!
Each of them had contacted all possible
sources of information, like relatives, friends, acquaintances, former
colleagues and checked the mobile records of their missing ones from the
respective mobile companies. They had
all reached a dead end. Their loved ones
had just left them for good. Vanished
into thin air!
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