THINK OF YOUR SINS. PREPARE TO DIE. 

On the edge of the forests of Deoghar, in the sleepy little town of Nimdeora, novelist Sangram Talukdar’s peaceful life is unexpectedly shattered when he receives an anonymous death threat. At first, he dismisses it as a cruel joke. But when two of the family’s beloved dogs, guardians of the estate, are found killed with a clean, swift arrow to each of their throats, Talukdar calls in the astute detective Janardan Maity to investigate. To uncover the dark secrets of this quiet town, Maity must dig deep into the past - into the Talukdar family's bloody history, and a dreaded curse that has haunted the family for generations. But he must act quickly, because someone, or something, is lurking in the shadows of the forest, watching, waiting to claim their prey... Bhaskar Chattopadhyay is the author of two novels, Patang and Penumbra. He has also written and edited a bestselling anthology of short stories, 14: Stories That Inspired Satyajit Ray, and has translated the works of several Bengali writers such as Rabindranath Tagore, Rajshekhar Basu, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Premendra Mitra, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Hasan Azizul Haque, Narendra Nath Mitra, among others. He lives in Bengaluru with his wife, Sweta, and sons Ishaan and Emon.