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Book Name: Girls Who Stray Author: Anisha Lalvani Publisher: Bloomsbury Genre: Crime, Thriller and Suspense Fiction/ Psychological Thriller  Format: Hardcover Print length: 296 pages  Rating: 4/5 Anisha’s debut novel, Girls Who Stray , is a monologue delivered by a narrator who reflects on her journey through the choices she makes, all while confronting the societal expectations placed on women.   Blurb A, 23 and unnamed, returns from an obscure British university armed with a useless degree to her new home in Noida—a home of feeble men—and the breakdown of her parents’ marriage. Serial procrastinator, overthinker, anxious and unhinged, A overcompensates her low self-esteem and sense of alienation with snootiness, even as she so badly wants to belong. Her only saving quality is that she is self-aware. Before long, A finds herself elbow-deep in an affair with a property developer and subsequently in a double murder. Faced with the anxieties of the crime along with pr...

Book Name: Then She Was Gone Author: Lisa Jewell Publisher: Cornerstone Digital Genre: Crime, Thriller and Suspense Format: Paperback Print length: 421 pages  Rating: 4.5/5 Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell is a compelling and emotionally resonant thriller that will keep readers hooked.   Blurb on Amazon A missing girl. A buried secret. Ellie was her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone. Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet. But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter. Because his daughter is the image of Ellie. Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back. What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide? Review The plot follows the events after the sudden disappearance of a fifteen-year-old girl, Ellie. Ev...

Book Name: The House By The Highway Author: Nitesh Singh Publisher: Ukiyoto Genre: Mystery, Thriller and Suspense Format: Paperback Print length: 210 pages  Rating: 4/5 The House By The Highway by Nitesh Singh is a gripping and suspenseful narrative that would keep readers hooked till the mystery is unfolded.   Blurb When Pihu and Nitya are visited by the man from their nightmares in real life they decide to no longer suffer in silence and get to the bottom of the situation. Unaware of each other's plight, they embark on their own individual adventures before finally being united by fate. However, the reason for their distress is not entirely what they had thought while they struggle to uncover a conspiracy of unfavourable circumstances. Review The plot follows the story of Nitya and Pihu, whose lives were intertwined by a recurring nightmare figure that manifested in their real lives. Born on the same night, and haunted by the same man so horrifying in appearance that t...

Book Name: Berserk Author: Tejaswi Priyadarshi Publisher: Readomania Genre: Psychological and Crime Thriller Format: Paperback Print length: 303 pages  Rating: 4/5 Berserk By Tejaswi Priyadarshi is a chilling psychological and crime thriller that will shake the readers with the violence portrayed in the plot line.   Blurb Ramakrishna, a humble teacher, and Nazm, his feisty student, are bound by a love story that ends in tragedy when Nazm is savagely slain on their wedding night. Shattered, crestfallen, and consumed by guilt, Ramakrishna forges an unlikely alliance with a volatile  figure known as Coffee Man. Together, they seek Nazm’s killer, though Coffee Man’s ruthless methods threaten to drag Ramakrishna into moral ruin. At the same time, a man who renounced the world years ago realizes that revenge is his only path to Nirvana. Resurrected by his thirst for vengeance, he stalks his victims to settle his own twisted score of betrayal. As their blood-soaked paths c...