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He Spoke After Ten Years - Book Review

Title: He Spoke After Ten Years
Author : Apurva Mathur
Pages : 260
Publisher : Notion Press


Blurb:

Mumbai. 2021. An ordinary man gets bludgeoned to death at the peak of Covid. R.D. Burman CD was found near the body.

Two years later, during the men’s cricket world cup, a seasoned cop is frustrated with unexpected and extraordinary pressure to solve the cold case.

Neel Mantri, a child prodigy with scars of childhood trauma and a sleuth in making, gets to assiston the case. He pulls a thread and a whole saga of events unfold and the case turns out to be justa tip of the iceberg.

The genius young detective Neel Mantri is tested in every way as the danger looms on his own life.

Will the killer strike again…?
Is it murder or justice….?
Will his first case be his last…..?


Review:

The writing is excellent, the pace is good, the mystery is fascinating, and the characters are all interesting. 

The pacing is perfectly set, neither too slow nor too fast but it won't leave you in the middle, you can't put this book down till you finish it.

The author drew me in with the depth of his characters. The found family element and the trio friendship and a tragic past what else do you need? 

I love the concept of how they are all interconnected with each other, supporting everything.

All in all, it was a pleasurable journey, and I would most definitely read it as a series if the author decides to make it as one. You feel like you know them all what they look like, how they act. 


The characters were easy to fall in love with (Neel especially) and follow, along with the story. The author made the mental visions so easy and vivid of the surroundings and the character's actions felt so real. 

It's a cosy book to read and escape into a story, into another land, and someone else's problems.

Once the mystery of what happened is solved you are left with a team of characters so life-like that you are genuinely invested in what is going to happen to them in the future and, of course, what future mysteries are going to befall them. 

The ending is both bittersweet and happy. I hope that you will go and read this book, the storyline will stay with you for a long time as it will me.

Rating : 10/10


About Author:

Just like every other boy growing up in late 80s-early 90s, Apurva grew up fond of murder mysteries and the detectives solving them. According to him, it started with Hardy Boys, then came Sherlock Holmes and eventually graduated to more complex Scandinavian crime fiction by Nesbo, Menkell etc and gripping thrillers by Baldacci, Child etc.

Life took him to IIT Bombay and after graduating, he worked as an educational consultant for over a decade and half nursing the love for books and reading a book a week all this while. But eventually during the pandemic, my inner sleuth and a penchant for storytelling made me write this riveting mystery novel - He Spoke After Ten Years


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