Category: Fiction
Publisher (audio): PocketFM
Rights: Print and eBook rights available, Dramatisation rights available
The Great Indian Mystery Novel is here
Nine teenage girls have disappeared from the town of Dahira over a period of six months. There are only two ways to go – up the mountains into the forests where tourists hike to the Valley of Pines, or downhill to disappear into the vast plains of the country.
After the ninth disappearance, everyone’s scrambling. The government sends in a seasoned investigator. WCB, the premier news channel, sends in their top journalist and find out what happened to the “Nine Nirbhayas”. The folks in the town think it could very well be a man eater. To complicate things, Bhoora, the kid who disappeared into the woods fifteen years ago, lands up in Dahira once again. He claims he’s lived alone in the woods all this time.
Did all the girls leave Dahira to escape its patriarchal prison? Or did the Demon of Dahira take them? Is Bhoora the demon? Is a man-eating tiger on the prowl? Or is it something much worse? Parth Mukherjee’s debut novel takes you on a whirlwind ride to find the answers to these questions. But tragedies also have a way of asking some questions that are almost impossible to answer. Are you prepared for those questions?
The author: Parth Mukherjee