Crime/Thriller/Mystery

Set during the Chola period in Southern India, Bhuvanapathi, a young Brahmin in Kanchi, nurtures an unquenchable desire to take on a perilous journey to Kasi, in order to earn fame and wealth. Having mastered all the survival skills, he sets on this journey to Kasi after his marriage. His greed makes him commit all forbidden sins during his stay in Kasi and top to it all, he lusts for another woman, Navagnani and lures her to marry him, lying that his first wife was dead.

Time goes by and Bhuvanapathi, now wanting to reap the benefits of his Kasi trip, plans to head back to Kanchi. His only problem – his second wife and her younger brother Sivagnani, who wants to go with him. Unable to stop them, he takes them along, all the while trying to make an evil plan to get rid of them. Bhuvanapathi’s male supremacy stoops low and does the unthinkable when they reach Thiruvenlangadu. Little did he know that a woman’s curse can span across births. What happens next and how the legend of Pazhayanur Neeli came to be, is a riveting read.

Author: Balakumaran
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 348
Language: English

Nirmal Kumar is a movie star whose perfect image and seemingly perfect life a dangerous predator is hell-bent on ruining. While on a cosy vacation, his life is turned upside-down when he becomes the sole suspect in a gruesome murder. With everything at stake, can Nirmal Kumar prove his innocence and recover from his fall from grace?

Author: Pattukkottai Prabakar
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages:186
Language: English

Shyamala returns to Kannamangalam with her friend Raghav in the hope of finding tranquillity and musical inspiration. However, she finds herself in an embroilment with an enigmatic Bairagi who is haunting the village and derailing the lives of its inhabitants. The reason? He is desperately trying to acquire the flute of Krishna through her. The village becomes a hotbed of religious debate when death and disappearance crop up unexplained along with a claim that Shyamala is a reincarnation of Draupadi. Can peace and normalcy be restored in the celebrated haven of intrigue? And how? Through faith in the unseen or through rational thought and action?

Author: Indra Soundar Rajan
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 381
Language: English

A terrorist group is out to eliminate a pilot, a brigadier and a deserter who turned the tables on them during a hijacking a few years ago. Connections, histories, and secrets surface when a filmmaking duo looking to make their commercial debut start probing into the hijacking story. At the same time, a copilot gets embroiled in trouble with a gangland and the Malaysian police after incurring the wrath of his lover’s father.

Can this whole cast outwit the people who are after their blood?

Author: Pattukkottai Prabakar
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 266
Language: English

A time travel fiction that begins in 2037 A.D with Dev, a Mars Mission specialist, traumatized by a Tsunami in Japan. Dev’s brain travels back and forth on a timeline when he is asleep and starts visualizing himself as Prince Rajendra Cholan of the ancient past, John Wilbur and Saravanan of recent times. He uncovers the truth behind the origin of the oldest language spoken on the surface of the earth – Tamil. If history, both ancient and modern coupled with scientific proofs, reveals that there is an entire race that wants to protect the sanctity of Tamil language, at the cost of sacrificing valuable human lives; it makes us wonder if there is more to it than what meets our eyes. From ancient Indus Valley Civilization to futuristic Altabs and Touch Sheets, interspersed with fact-based fiction, did Dev succeed in translating the visuals from his brain trenches to a substantial discovery?