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Malice, by renowned Japanese author Keigo Higashino is truly a very intriguing book. The story starts off with the murder of Kuhikiko Hidaka, a well known author. His body was found by his wife Rie Hidaka and his friend friend Nonoguchi. when dectective Kaga comes to investigate the case, he realizes that Nonogucchi worked with a school when he was a teacher. when Kaga investigates further he finds that Nonoguchi is hiding something.. who killed Hidaka? well, you will get to know about the killer within the first three capters of the book.., then isn't the mystery solved? Well, well this crime thriller is not about WHO or HOW its about "WHY".. yes, the motive of the murder...                                You will reach a point where you will feel.. okay, killer confessed the crime and the motive behind it is also found, then what is yet to discover in ensuing pages..? well, the real mystery be...

Dead Lake, a supernatural thriller by Darcy Coates is a story of an artist Sam, who is battling the artist block and hence decides to take a week off from city life and stay in recluse at her uncle's lake house cabin with no neighbours, no phone hence no distractions at all. But there is something deeply unnatural niggling in the lake. Sam discovers that someone is stalking her. She catches the glimpses of a tall, strange man standing at the end of dock, staring intently into the swirling water below, but when she goes out there he is gone...                  Most of the time she is hallucinating as she does not remember painting anything and yet her hands are covered with paint. Someone had crept into her cabin disabled her car and other communication devices leaving her stranded with no way of contact. Later, she discovers that a lot of people have gone missing on a hiking trails close to where she is living now. Will she survive...

The Matilda Effect by Ellie Irving is an absolute pleasure to read.. The Matilda effect tells the story of a little girl (12 year old..), called Matilda, who loves science and wishes to become an inventor one day. So when, she discovers that her grandma was once a scientist herself she was completely astonished..! and then when she comes to know that her grandma's boss stole her discovery for himself and soon is going to be awarded Nobel prize for the same , she feels completely demented and decides to fight for it, So here our little Matilda sets out on a journey to fight for Granny Joss's rights..                                       The narration of the story is being done by our little Matilda.., the innocence with she brings out the story would invariably make you fall in love with the book right from the opening para.. (as described below..) " I wanted to start this book w...

Puzzled about which book to go with for a perfect weekend reading? Okay.., What about just picking up a murder mystery..? And.. and when I say murder mystery one of the names that will crop up our mind will be Agatha Christie, the queen of mystery novels.. Yes.., so here I have a book recommendation for you all.. The Murder on Links by Agatha Christie.. It all starts with Hercule Poirot receiving an intriguing letter from foreign millionaire asking for help.. and hence, Hercule Poirot set out right away for the french countryside. But he arrives a little late to save his client, Monsieur Renauld, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. Who could have done such a thing? Why was dead man wearing his son's overcoat..? Who killed him? Was it his son? or his wife..? or maybe the the neighbor women thought to be his mistress..? or it was the mysterious girl on the train who calls herself Cinderella? And and.. before Poirot cou...

The Course of Love by Alain de Botton tracks the trajectory of the love affair from it's very beginning till it's end. It shows how Rabih and Kirsten fall in love, get married and set off on a journey where they believed all they need is love and eventually learnt that life just had different ideas.. , and how the dynamics of the relationship changes is being brought by touching upon following contents.. Romanticism .. Our understanding of love is being hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. we have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue... Marriage: a hopeful, generous, infinitely kind gamble taken by two people who don't know they are or who the other might be, binding themselves to a future they cannot conceive of and have carefully omitted to investigate. Ever After.. We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to ...

The novel 'The Hundred year old man who climbed out of  the window and disappeared" by Jonas Jonasson is about the life of the hundred year old man Allan Karlsson. Allan Karlsson sitting quietly in his room in old people's home, waiting for the party he does not want to begin. Yes.., his one-hundredth birthday party which he is not interested to attend and so here he decides to escape.. Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flower bed, Allan makes his gateway.. and here he embarks on a hilarious, adventurous and entirely unexpected journey..                                        His escaping journey begins with stealing of a suitcase (a suit case full of cash)  followed by members of gang who are determined to retrieve the fortune from suitcase and along his way Allan befriends some people and together they attempt to deceive police who are s...

Paradise Towers is a 2018 Indian fiction novel written by Shweta Bachchan Nanda. "In a leafy Mumbai suburb, on the very turn of a U bend, stood the handsome structure of Paradise Towers, a residential building, built in late sixties, as the last word in modern convenience." Yes.., Paradise Towers is a little apartment complex in Mumbai with it's residents from different walks of and life and cultural background consisting of Gujaratis.., Bengalis.., NRI.., and Muslims.. The plot of the novel revolves around the lives of the residents.. "Nothing dramatic ever happened in Paradise Towers... or so you might think.. Of course, appearances are deceptive." Okay.., so talking about the protagonist of the novel.. well.., Should it be Mrs. Aly Khan.. or Should it be Mrs. Ranganekar.. or Should it be Mrs. Kapoor.. or Laila.. well.. I would rather say all the residents of Paradise Towers including the helper, the children all of them together portray to be t...

Pyjamas Are Forgiving is 2018 Indian fiction novel written by Twinkle Khanna. The plot revolves around a middle aged women, Anshu, the protagonist of the novel, who faces difficulty in sleeping and hence decides to get treated at Ayurvedic ashram in Kerala at Shanthamaaya Sthalam. Over the years, Anshu had been a regular patient seeking Dr. Menon's Ayurvedic Therapies.But this time however, for her 28 days treatment in here she is intercepted by her ex-husband with his young wife which in turn floods her mind with millions of memories with her husband. In our course of reading novel at some instances we will commiserate Anshu for taking some inappropriate decisions but one thing that stays lucid about her throughout the novel is that her being a resilient women. Below is the conversation that she has with her ex-husband (Jay) when he comes to meet her. Yes, Jay, tell me Why are you here with me? Before he could say any thing, answers like we were on Kaun Banega Cror...

"People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was the colour. All the colour he had.." Above are the ending lines of chapter five. It's a story about a man who had staunch principles.., who followed stringent routine , a man who appeared to be bitter but had a soft heart beneath.., yes it's the story about 'A Man Called Ove'. People felt Ove was bitter , but he was not bitter he just did not go grinning all the time. The way he faces all the struggles in his life.., the loneliness that had crept inside him when he loses his parents.., had nobody who would love him, care for him.., he saw the world in black and white.. until Sonja plunged into his life.. yes, the love of his life and all the colour he had.. The book is the amalgamation of all the kinds of emotions. It will make you laugh..,weep a little..,and will definitely make you contemplate about this Man Called Ove.. Ove was little different and quirky , who was disliked by people.....