Book Title: Killing AshishKarve: An Inspector Saralkar Mystery
Author: Salil Desai
Format: Paperback
Book Title:
The title of the book is ‘Killing AshishKarve: An Inspector Saralkar Mystery ‘ is intriguing
Book Cover:
The cover of the book is an image of a blood-stained car mirror reflecting the hand of the dead body.
Plot:
Senior Inspector Saralkarawaits for the critical and interesting case to solve. One such murder mystery will come in his way and he sets his journey to untangle the case with the help of his sub-ordinate Motkar.
A dead body of a local businessman AshishKarve is found in the backseat of his car. The scene clearly shows that it is suicide. Even Motkar suspects the same about the case, But Saralkar will find that there is something devious about this case and starts to dig another side of it.
As he solves the levels of his investigation he starts to suspect the people who are involved in the murdered business man’s life. Right from Ashish’s wife to the strangers who are merely involved in his routines, he suspects everyone. To solve the case he checks all the possibilities to fetch the victim.
Will the Saralkar solve this case with the proper evidence and clues? Is it a murder or suicide?
Read this interesting and thrilling book ‘Killing AshishKarve: An Inspector Saralkar Mystery’ buSalil Desai.
What I like:
1. The plot and the characterization are very well done.
2. The case and the secrets behind it will leave the readers with an excellent feeling.
3.The case-solving techniques and suspecting the main reason/person behind this case is interesting.
4. The narration was good and the scenes are designed beautifully.
5. The author designed this story in an excellent way so that the reader will travel with the characters of the story
What I didn’t like:
In particular, there are no negative points but in some areas, the story was dragged a bit.
Narration:
The narration is done in a good way and it could be more interesting and enthusiastic.
Language & Grammar:
A clear language with neat and uncomplicated grammar is used in the book
My Final Verdict:
An interesting thriller and a story packed with suspense. The book is apt for readers who like to read thriller and suspense stories.
Book Title: 3/5
Book Cover:3/5
Plot: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Narration: 3/5
Language & Grammar: 3/5
Final Rating: 3/5

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Killing Ashish Karve probably has to be one of the best accounts of a 'police procedural' crime thriller if any. I personally haven't read any book or even seen a movie which details the mundane tasks that a police team investigating any crime has to do. And what works well for this book is the fact that the author Salil Desai cleverly uses the police procedural as a technique to move the narrative forward rather than rely on other time-tested techniques that crime thrillers usually use.

Do read this book, if you are a fan of well written crime thrillers.

Detailed review will be put up on my blog http://mahabore.wordpress.com/category/book-reviews sometime soon. ( )

This book is about how saralkar and PSI motkar find the murderer of Ashish karve. Author has given justice to each and every character. Always the murderer is a person to whom we don't suspect. And author has kept that intact till the end. As in real world one murder one mistake 2nd murder the second mistake. Same way in this book too the murderer does the 2nd mistake. Overall would say ok goodread... ( )

Earlier printed as The Body In "The Back Seat" this book is later re-published as "Killing Ashish Karve". It is the first book in Inspector Saralkar Series.

The book goes moderately good in terms of pace and characters and was met with the target. This success could have made author Salil Desai to start a series of Police Procedural written in Indian environment by having Inspector Saralkar as the key investigating officer.

If you talk about the plot, as the title says it all, it revolves around the murder of a young businessman named Ashish Karve.

How his murder comes to light is portrayed quite interestingly. The modus operandi of a car-thief, how he actually runs away with a car, how he reacts when he sees a "body in the back seat". Everything is written so convincingly that you will raise bar of expectations quite high.

The car thief than deserts the car in a street. The reactions of the shopkeepers and police about the abandoned car are explored realistically.

The other things we would like to point out are:
1. The maid's behavior towards elder Mr. Ramakant Karve who is bed ridden. This is quite realistic and proves that if you want to take care of your loved ones, try to do it yourself as much as possible, rather than leaving them to mercy of others.
2. The police officers are also human beings like us and they also have to face some problems which we are facing in routine. See how PSI Motkar tries to cop up with the needs to help his son in studies (especially Maths).
3. Also Saralkar's reactions reflects sarcasm effective. Take his views about Motkar and his efficiency and attitude towards police duty for example.
The "Secrets Of Living" program which was attended by Senior Inspector Saralkar will remind you a similar program running actually by a well known person.

So, this mixture of real things and attributes with fiction is what makes a good crime thriller.

Some of the dialogs/descriptions worth to take note from the book:
Even a policeman had the right to enjoy a Sunday lunch and siesta, didn’t he?
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Much of police work is tasteless, madam, and thankless too, but you have not answered my question.

There are some low points in the book as well. But the highs are more than the lows.

So if you like reading crime thrillers and police procedural, you will enjoy it.

We would be giving 3.5 to 4 stars (out of 5).

Detailed reviews are available on our website at. https://thinkerviews.com/books/killing-ashish-karve-by-salil-desai-book-reviews/ ( )