Description
- Author: Vivaan Shah
- Pub: November 2021
- ISBN: 9780143453239
- Price: Rs. 299/-
- Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
- Binding: Paperback
- Extent: 272
ABOUT THE BOOK
Pranav Paleja, a criminal lawyer who works at a legal Chamber-
Mangesh & Mangharam. He's an ordinary man with an ordinary life.
And while it is his job to uphold the law, he seems pathologically
incapable of doing this in real life. The mystery of this novel concerns
an accident. We follow the investigation of a horrific car crash into a toll
booth on the Bandra-Worli Sealink, and the ensuing death of the person
driving, who turns out to be someone our protagonist Pranav Paleja had
butted heads with; a disreputable builder by the name of Yogesh
Moolchandani. All the signs say suicide but there was nothing even
remotely wrong with his life. He had just cracked a deal and things were
looking hale and hearty for him. He had even recently purchased an
imported Volkswagen Jetta.
The CCTV footage shows him crashing into the toll booth at a speed of
180 km per hour. The car dealer he had purchased it from had received
five missed calls from him just five minutes prior to the alleged time of
the crash. The authorities begin to wonder why he was so frantically
trying to get in touch with him and what on earth could have possibly
transpired to cause this death? Since Pranav Paleja was settling a dispute
with the man concerned only moments before the crash, the police land
up at his doorstep. Who or more supposedly what killed Yogesh
Moolchandani?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vivaan Shah is an actor/writer from Mumbai. He was born in 1990,
published his first novel Living Hell in 2019 and a horror short story for
the Hindu Businessline titled Entombed, and one for HT Brunch called
The Reptile Kind. He has acted in movies and shows with literary source
material ranging from 7 Khoon Maaf and Bombay Velvet to A Suitable Boy.
He has been acting and participating in the theatre since he was a child,
and has adapted the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce into
a play he directed entitled Comedy of Horrors.