"The dance of death" by Manna Bahadur. This book is published by Penguin Metroreads in 2012 and has 191 pages.
Daata Anand, a God man, is under arrest and court case is ongoing. Key witnesses turn hostile, his wife and arresting police officer goes missing. The upright justice Shankar wants evidence. Kishen Das, a young man, develops interest in the case.
Is Daata the criminal? Will there be enough evidence to convict? Will this judge meet the fate like previous judges presiding the case?
The story is set in 70s. Post emergency period and takes place in Patna, Bihar. Kishen and Daata are somehow connected. How?
Narration is decent. Buildup is good but finishing is not as good. At the end readers keep wondering what difference it would have made if the characters of Kishen Das and Justice Shankar were not there? Nothing! Then it would have become a story rather than a novel.
Cover is attractive. It took me a month to complete this book.
Give it a miss.
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