My Kind of Perfect: KILLING ASHISH KARVE

-Salil Desai

As the name suggests, this book is a murder mystery. Not being an ardent reader of crime thrillers, I was quite excited to read my first murder mystery novel. And I wasn't disappointed.

What I had not expected was that the novel would straight-away start with a mysterious murder and will progress solving the same through the pages. Who was killed, isn't a suspense at all; the title gives away that part. The interesting part is how, layer by layer, the corpse gets a shape and character in the pages that follow.

I am a serious Sherlock fan, and sure, suspense excites everyone, but when you are reading something like this which only talks about the murder every now and then, the mystery gets to your nerves. You sure don't want read such a spine-chilling disturbing tale at night when you are alone in your room with no one to disturb. I did exactly what I am hereby advising you all to beware of. The experience was frightening and I almost dropped the idea of getting to the end that very night and started off from where I had left the next bright morning.
It was like I was solving the case myself. The narration was simple and the clues were laid at exactly the right place giving the reader a fair chance to unmask the culprit. The culprit was not difficult to guess but the motive was quite a surprise.

All in all it was a nice murder mystery to start from, simple yet involving.

I would recommend you all to read this one if you haven't tried the genre yet!