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I am too numb to even start writing about this book. When I picked up The Last Mrs. Parrish, I, as an avid thriller reader, was expecting the usual plot twists and thrills all the way, but what came out of this book changed the game for me. Surpassing all expectations, the book gave me the most magical experience of my life in less than 400 enthralling pages. After I put down the book, I realized I need a significant amount of time to process everything my mind and heart went through before jumping into another book. The plot, as mentioned in the blurb, revolves around Amber Patterson, a 26-year-old woman, who is tired of being average, earning enough to barely meet the ends. Amber envies Daphne Parrish, who seems to have it all, from a luxurious seaside mansion to butlers and maids at her service round the clock; from expensive dresses and jewelry to a multi-millionaire husband, Jackson. Amber decides to sabotage Daphne and Jackson’s relationship and win Jackson over for herself, so...

I was keen on reading more of the Janardan Maity series by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay after reading The Disappearance of Sally Sequeira and it lived upto my expectations in all forms. Here Falls the Shadow is a treat to detective and crime thriller lovers, and even beginners in that genre, though apparently it will seem to fall at the intersection of thriller and horror. The plot is mainly set in Nimdeora, a small and sleeping town near Deoghar, surrounded by dense woods, where lives novelist Sangram Talukdar. His world is turned upside down when he receives not one but two death threatening letters, and he invites detective Janardan Maity to investigate the matter. Maity, along with his friend Prakash Ray, come down to the mysterious town, at the huge Talukdar mansion only to find out that the men of the Talukdar lineage are cursed because of deep and dark secret of the past. Hence begins Maity’s quest to find the truth, but it wouldn’t be easy as nobody among the people associated with ...