Fiction Series

It was a man and his face appeared to be covered by a mask. He removed something out of his pant pocket. The road light that entered through the window bounced off the shining blade. He swung his hand up and the lights went on, instantly. Radha had slipped to ...

“Oh my God!” Radha exclaimed. Kartik continued, “She got hit by a speeding car while crossing the main road. I’m at the hospital. Get here asap.” “Shit, Anna. You shouldn’t have thought of this plan.” The scene at the hospital was pathetic. Inside the emergency room, doctors were struggling to ...

It was Kartik’s plan to get Rita out of the influence of her parents and slowly bring up the topic of the murder; then, record the entire dialogue on a digital voice recorder. But, fate had something else in store for them. As planned, Radha called Rita and told her ...

“But, wasn’t the car owned by the Singhs” Radha still had doubts. “No. The limozine was hired for a Mr. Khurana by a woman over the phone. The rental agency had been requested the driver to meet Mr. Khurana at an isolated spot. The police found the driver’s dead body ...

That evening, Kartik was lucky enough to find a whole white napkin and a tube of foundation covered with Rita’s finger-prints. What had happened was under Kartik’s instructions, Radha had intentionally spilled the foundation from the tube on her dressing table. Having a helpful nature, Rita immediately rushed forward to ...

When the brother-sister team reached the Singh’s flat, Rita and her parents were packing to leave for Delhi. She was supposed to stay back until the entire investigation of the case was over. “Rita, this is bad,” Radha said ruefully. “My dance performance is coming up tomorrow and you are ...

“What happened to Roma?” Kartik asked. “She died of burn wounds from a gas leak.” “Didn’t Fateh Singh also die of burn wounds from a gas leak?” “Yes,” Mrs. Kaul said, tears welling in her eyes. “Is there some connection between your sister’s and your husband’s death?” Kartik demanded, looking ...

When Rita could speak, she said that she did not know anything about the pills. Though the officer would not believe it and registered it as an accident. To be on the safer side, Rita’s parents agreed to appoint Kartik as her attorney. It took a couple of weeks for ...

That evening, Radha was returning from her dance practice when she saw a couple of hospital attendants leaving her building with Rita on a stretcher. Radha ran to her unconscious friend’s prone figure. Valli came running out to greet her sister-in-law. “She attempted suicide by swallowing tranquilizers,” Valli looked worried. ...

“What do you mean?” Radha asked her brother Kartik. “I mean that the entire Singh family died under mysterious circumstances. If the possibility of accidental death is eliminated and it must be eliminated because of too many co-incidences, the killer should be someone very close to them. There is only ...