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'A Marketplace for Murder' - Debleena Majumdar's Debut Novel

Debleena Majumdar's recent #book ‘A Marketplace for Murder’ by Vishwakarma Publications
 is a short, taut read. It’s only 165 pages.
In the story, Leena is a mother, wife, business reporter and friend. Two people in her life go missing: her cook Hiren and her friend, Abhimanyu. Both of them have one thing in common.
Leena seems to be at the epicentre of a cyclone that’s going to sweep her carefully constructed life awash.
What’s really going on at Loans 123? Is there more to the company than what meets the eye?
What has Leena’s husband Mahesh, who is an archaeologist, stumbled upon?
How do all these pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fit in together? Play sleuth and try to figure it out on your own.
The author is a storyteller par excellence who weaves a tale of intrigue, suspense and murder. Right from the first chilling page to the last, the reader is hooked.
In her acknowledgements, Debleena Majumdar mentions the Queen of Crime Agatha Christie, and Bengal’s own Saranindu Bandhopadhyay and Satyajit Ray, authors who have shaped her childhood. She seems to have picked up quite a bit from these storytellers.
Her LinkedIn profile says she is the co-founder of Kahaniyah (www.kahaniyah.org).
“I am a story-questioner. Asking questions. Finding the authenticity of a story. Or the lack of it. And then, building it. With numbers. With words. That's my job.
She has also been a contributor to Economic Times Prime for the last eight years or so: “I am a data-driven investigative journalist covering Education and M&A for Economic Times Prime.”
Her experiences with start-ups and storytelling are clear in this book. Read it!

Comments

  1. Debleena8 November 2019 at 20:20

    Thank you so much Aishwariya. So humbled to read this

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