Life of a bookworm

HUNGRY GODS AUTHOR: RICHA LAKHERA PUBLISHER: RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA GENRE: CRIME FICTION PUBLICATION DATE: 20th JULY, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 196 GOODREADS RATING: 4.02/5 (56 Ratings) MY RATING: 3.5 /5 BLURB: Beaten and brutally raped, her body is never found. However, the killers make one mistake. They leave a witness, a witness who has nothing to live for except revenge. And when he crosses the boundaries of time to make the guilty pay, a whole lot of dark characters come to light. There is Valentine, the superstar brand ambassador who sells anything for a price; there is Medici, a pharmaceutical company fraudulently manufacturing banned drugs; there is the perverted and sinister minded Dr Ranga and there is Este, the prostitute whose dark secret will blow up a daughter’s sanity.     As the story moves forward, a breathless suspense builds up: is there another murder waiting to happen? Will Police Inspector Dorab Si...

HELLO GUYS!! I am doing my first cover reveal and that too for the HarperCollins India.  I am glad to reveal the cover of Shweta Bachchan Nanda's debut novel "Paradise Towers" . ABOUT THE BOOK: Dinesh opens the door to the Kapoor flat to find Lata, the enchantress who works at Mrs Aly Khan’s, carrying a hot case with freshly made gaajar ka halwa. On the first floor, the inquisitive Mrs Mody wipes the dust off her precious binoculars to spy on the building’s security guard. The Singhs open the doors of their SUV, their four boys creating a ruckus – they are the newcomers, the outsiders. Through the peephole, the ever-watchful Mrs Ranganekar observes their arrival. Welcome to Paradise Towers, an apartment building in central Mumbai. Everyone here has a story to tell. Or maybe they have stories to hide. Shweta Bachchan-Nanda’s quirky, intimate debut explores the intertwined lives in this building – a forbidden romance, an elopement, the undercurre...

THE FRIEND AUTHOR: TERESA DRISCOLL PUBLISHER: THOMAS & MERCER GENRE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER PUBLICATION DATE: 13th AUGUST, 2018 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 292      GOODREADS RATING: 4.19 /5 (4,295 Ratings) MY RATING:   4/5 BLURB (Taken from Amazon)   On a train with her husband, miles from home and their four-year-old son, Ben, Sophie receives a chilling phone call. Two boys are in hospital after a tragic accident. One of them is Ben. She thought she could trust Emma, her new friend, to look after her little boy. After all, Emma’s a kindred spirit—someone Sophie was sure she could bare her soul to, despite the village rumors. But Sophie can’t shake the feeling that she’s made an unforgivable mistake and now her whole family is in danger. Because how well does she know Emma, really? Should she have trusted her at all? Time is running out. Powerless to help her child, still hours from home, Sophie is about to discover...