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The Storyteller
As a mother, a woman and a retired police officer, Prasanna Killedar thinks of murder as the ultimate agent of chaos. And she knows chaos punishes women disproportionately. That’s why whenever the police seek help, she finds it impossible to say no. The stakes become all the more personal when the victim is Shraddha, her daughter’s childhood friend, and the eldest daughter of a thug politician. Prasanna and investigating officer, Yogini Sawant soon realize that to catch the killer, they have to first enter the seedy underbelly of internet and the world of online roleplaying. As the investigation leads into new corners of internet as well as the human mind, Prasanna realizes she will have to set up her own game to stop this cycle of terror and violence. A game where the predator will become the prey. However, when you are entering the virtual world where only evil is real, baiting a damaged mind is the kind of high-stakes game that may end with devastating consequences.
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A Bad Place
When the twin disasters of their tenant’s suicide and a financial setback strike on the same day, Aniket and Suchitra “Su” Shah are forced to move into the suicide house along with their five-year-old daughter Reva. But Row-house no 49 is no ordinary house. Su soon realizes that the suicide of her tenant was a mere harbinger of the imminent evil. Who are the young mother and baby Su keeps seeing in the bedroom where her tenant killed herself? And why does the mother; an obvious victim of domestic abuse, insists on telling Su “he says he loves us”? Trapped on the horrors that only she can see on one hand, and the inexorable deterioration of her marriage on the other, Su realizes that the time is running out for her family. But when the evil that resides in Row-house no 49 casts its eye towards Reva, the mother in Su will go to any length, even to murder, to protect her child.