BLURB:

What can possibly go wrong when fame and fortune come knocking? Plenty! We return to the charming and colourful lanes of Gwaltoli to revisit Prachand Tripathi, our favourite desi detective and owner of Kanpur Khoofiya Pvt Ltd. While he has progressed from locating lost pets and garments to problems of gravitas, their moderate fame doesn’t impress wife and CFO Vidya Tripathi who still complains about wasted potential and the tepid life they lead. As if on cue, an unusual but promising proposal comes their way, one they simply cannot refuse. It’s an invitation to oversee a film shoot based on their lives, whisking them away to the resplendent deserts of Rajasthan. What follows is an unbelievable and spine-chilling adventure that will drag them through a morass of inexplicable events, dangerous secrets and a cursed, abandoned village that wreaks havoc on the living and dead alike.

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REVIEW:

The Curse of Kuldhara is the second book go the Kanpur Khoofiya Pvt Ltd series and by now we have all warmed up to the Tripathi family and their peculiarities. First things first. Have you been to Kuldhara? I have, in broad daylight and while its eerie, its also incredibly sad to see the deserted houses. I remember climbing to the terrace of one abandoned, dilapidated house and seeing the entire village with tears in my eyes. Cannot even imagine how it must have felt for everybody to drop everything and disappear from the lives they had known forever.

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Coming back to the story, Prachand and Vidya get an invitation to travel to Kuldhara to see and provide expert inputs in the movie that was being shot based on them. On schedule, they reached the place with Yatish and chacha Tripathi in tow. Funnnn, right? Ha, you bet! Soon eerie things start happening and leave everyone on the edge. To add to the confusion, there is a death. Or is it a murder? From there on more mysteries start unravelling and the book becomes unputdownable.

I love mysteries but I wasn’t yet sure how much I’d love mystery with comedy. Richa has done such a fine job – the comic moments are not hampering the mystery of the book which gets two thumbs ups from me. The suspense was intense and honestly, really difficult to gauge.

I also loved the sprinkling of cultures from UP and Rajasthan throughout the story. The book has many such fine nuances which don’t add directly to the story and might have been done without, but having them in the plot added to the entire reading experience.

On, and the climax? Well, I couldn’t guess it. You should read it and see if you can. I’d finished reading this book at 01:30 in the night, and the end had me a tad scared. Guess who slept with the lights in the room on?

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