Eight people sit down for dinner at a young singer's success party, but only seven live to see the next day.
When Suhana Sethi, a debutante Bollywood singer, receives a mysterious call during her party, life for the Sethi family of Mussoorie stumbles off the rails. The next morning, a family member is found dead. Murdered.
On the other side of the neighbourhood, battling with depression and a sickening habit of self-mutilation, is Mrs Sheetal Gupta, a widowed lady of the most maniacal personality who is suspected of shielding a secret—a secret that might not live long. What is this secret and what does her world bring to the wealthiest family in Mussoorie is a question that irks many.
Amidst all this are Dev, a retired policeman, and Vikram, a struggling writer, who take it upon themselves to sieve false from the truth before the family's dark, dysfunctional side alters the case completely, and the murder strikes again . . . and again . . .
Pulak Kedia is a medical student with many non-medical interests such as writing novels, singing, and making YouTube videos. An enthusiastic reader, he has grown up reading and writing murder mysteries all his childhood, and draws inspiration from the works of Agatha Christie. When not absorbed in writing, you will probably find him browsing through books in local bookstores in Mumbai. He turns an author with his debut novel, When Death Rings: A Mussoorie Murder Mystery, which is a blend of fam…
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