Death at the Dinner Party

By Shruti Priyaa

Raunak invites the CB-CID team along with Samaira for a surprise dinner party with his fiancée! Samaira doesn’t want to go, considering her mixed feelings for him. However, she ends up going. The power suddenly goes out at the hotel and a man ends up dead after two loud gunshots! Who is he? What was he doing alone at the party dining? Why do the man’s mobile locations end up being the same as Raunak’s for a whole week before his death? Why does Raunak turn pale when he finds a note addressed to him? Is the deadly sinner back again?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Srishti Publishers
• Release date: Nov 6, 2020

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DEATH AT THE DINNER PARTY

BY

Shruti Priyaa

Srishti Publishers & Distributors

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First digitally published by Srishti Publishers & Distributors in 2020

Copyright © Shruti Priyaa, 2020

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Previously on Sinners and Secrets

(Excerpts from #3 – The Deadly Sinner)

When a man named Arif falls off his apartment building and dies, Detective Raunak Sharma begins investigating the case thoroughly, even though it appears like a suicide. It is revealed during investigation that the victim had been an ethical hacker, who hacked into hospital systems and collected evidences of the crimes taking place inside the hospital. Some of the crimes included organ scams, medical murders, female foeticides, abuse of patients, and veiling high end murders by giving post-mortem reports as suicide, and many more. The victim, Arif, used to blackmail the hospital using these evidences, emailing them through an anonymous untraceable account, asking them to come clean with their crimes.

Raunak narrows down the hospital which Arif had blackmailed just before his death – a high-end hospital named ‘Livelong’, which is known for its ruthless practices. Suspecting that the hospital owner might have had something to do with Arif’s murder, Raunak brings him in for questioning. After long hours, he confesses that he was the master-mind behind Arif’s murder. But he also mentions that he didn’t do it himself, but in fact, hired an assassin to execute the murder. But he refuses to reveal the name of the assassin.

If I say, he’d kill me. The man’s face was aghast.

If you don’t, I will. Detective Raunak said.

But…

Listen, you’re in a police station. Not just any police station. You’re in my station. You’ll be under our protection twenty-four by seven. He can’t do anything to you while I’m here.

The man nodded.

Tell me this first, said Raunak. Why did he accept the assassination?

He asked me who would handle this case after the murder. I said it was you. And that’s when he accepted our proposal, said Vimal, wiping sweat off his face. "He said