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Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel

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Summary

Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life. But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of murders. So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice? Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one? Could it be Radha under the scanner for her role in the death of her husband Madhu and his mistress Mala, Pravar's sister? Or was it Ranjit's spouse Kavya, who owing to Stockholm Syndrome, takes to Pravar her kidnapper. As these deaths by poisoning puzzle Dhruva, Radha avers that Kavya had the motive and the means to kill her spouse, her paramour and his wife besides the cop. However, reckoning that when the ill-motives of the natural suspects to commit a murder are an open secret, someone with a hidden agenda might be tempted to use that as a camouflage for his subterfuge, Dhruva begins to look around for the culprit.

Status
Complete
Chapters
28
Rating
n/a
Age Rating
18+

Copyright

Prey on the Prowl – A Crime Novel

BS Murthy

ISBN 81-901911-4-4

Improved Edition © 2021 BS Murthy

Copyright © 2014 BS Murthy

Cover design of Gopi’s water color painting by Lattice Advertisers, Hyderabad.

Self Imprint

F-9, Nandini Mansion, 1-10-234,

Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad – 500 020

Other books by BS Murthy -

Benign Flame – Saga of Love

Jewel-less Crown - Saga of Life

Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth

Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel

Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock (A Novella)

Stories Varied (A Book of Short Stories)

Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays

Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife

Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self – help (A translation in verse)

Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey (A translation in verse)

Dedicated to all those women,

whose loving glances

have made my life’s journey a joyous sojourn.

Agenda for Revenge

1. Prey on the Prowl

2. Shakeel’s Fixation

3. Ranjit’s Predicament

4. Rags to Riches

5. Dhruva’s Dilemma

6. The Gatecrasher

7. Operation Checkmate

8. Foul on Pravar

9. Stockholm Syndrome

10. An Aborted Affair

11. Psyche of Revenge

12. Victim of Trust

13. Backyard of Life

14. Cuckoo’s Nest

15. ‘Untried’ Crime

16. Kavya’s Quagmire

17. Murders to Mislead

18. The Other Woman

19. Shakeel’s Demise

20. A Perfect Murder

21. Deaths in Spandan

22. Arraigned in Remand

23. Depressing Discovery

24. The Red Herring

25. Wages of Abuse

26. Decoding the Crime

27. A Poignant End

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