Witness the Night
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Average rating2.5
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Ratings2
Average rating2.5
In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl is found tied to a bed inside a townhouse where 13 people lie dead. The girl is alive, but she has been beaten and abused. She is held in the local prison, awaiting interrogation for the murders she is believed by the local people to have committed.
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1 primary bookSimran Singh is a 1-book series first released in 2010 with contributions by Kishwar Desai.
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A hauntingly grim representation of the real issues within India. Desai smartly explores the the corrupting effects of the patriarchy and culture whilst adhering to hard-boiled detective tropes. Simran Singh is a lonely, cynical alcoholic who becomes surrounded by a web of characters with intriguing motives and backstories, all whilst the plot trods along in discovering the truth behind a family murder with the sole survivor being a fourteen year-old girl. The chapters felt dense, particularly because each opened with a diary entry from Durga and concluded with an email correspondence. Whilst the writing did feel overbearing at times, the harsh realness of the content matter cannot be denied and the shadowy, conspiratorial way the story wraps itself around the reader was dangerously exciting.
