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Compass Box Killer (2013)

by Piyush Jha(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Rupa Publications

series

Inspector Virkar

review 1: I picked up this book just out of curiosity, Was browsing through the books by Indian author on amazon and came across this book. The summary and details got me to get this book and start reading it.The cover and the design looks total filmy , bollywood style and after reading the book i can confirm that the book is also bollywood material. We can see this getting made into a book pretty soon :)The book has good flow m the pace at which the book moves is good , there is always something or the other happening and the characters are built nicely. ACP waagh, raashi, virkar and all the small characters are nice and have a good presence.The language is pretty good and easy to comprehend.I can see a sequel of this coming soon enough.overall 3.5/5
review 2: Complex ... moresentences, colloquial Hindi/Marathi dialogues with generous expletives thrown in, the narrative falls short. But the author makes it up with an interesting plot and sticky-enough characters. Virkar (I find the name odd), an inspector with the Mumbai police’s crime branch, impresses with his never-say-die attitude, as he hunts the compass-box killer in Mumbai, Khandala and Belgaum, cities the novel is set in. Raashi Hunerwal (odd sir name again), the blue eyed television journo is curiously unusual and a near true shadow of today’s liberated professional women in big cities. Though with a misplaced sense of ambition, I thought, which she accomplishes with a high lust-quotient. But this is a story after all, so it fits.Perhaps with more work on the language, we will see a better new Virkar novel soon. A few typos I noticed. Like at Page 46 it says, ‘...he clicked his lips’. And at page 198 ‘...unique technique of driving the animal of out of its hidden liar in the jungle.’ Some more. Overall, 2.75. less

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