Blurb- He Spoke After Ten Years
Mumbai. 2021. An ordinary man gets bludgeoned to death at the peak of Covid. A R.D. Burman CD was found near the body.
Two years later, during the men’s cricket world cup, a seasoned cop is frustrated with unexpected and extraordinary pressure to solve the cold case.
Neel Mantri, a child prodigy with scars of childhood trauma and a sleuth in making, gets to assist on the case. He pulls a thread and a whole saga of events unfold and the case turns out to be just a tip of the iceberg.
The genius young detective Neel Mantri is tested in every way as the danger looms on his own life.
Will the killer strike again…?
Is it murder or justice….?
Will his first case be his last…..?
Meet Apurva Mathur
Author. Artist. Storyteller
Just like every other boy growing up in late 80s-early 90s, he grew up fond of murder mysteries and the detectives solving them. It started with Hardy Boys, then came Sherlock Holmes and eventually graduated to more complex Scandinavian crime fiction by Nesbo, Menkell etc and gripping thrillers by Baldacci, Child etc.
Life took him to IIT Bombay and after graduating, I worked as a physics educational consultant for about two decades nursing the love for books and reading a book a week all this while.
But eventually during the pandemic, my inner sleuth and a penchant for storytelling made me write this riveting mystery novel - He Spoke After Ten Years.
In the last 20 years, Apurva has taught over 15000+ students.
Storytelling comes naturally to him, and he has a command over written and spoken word and linguistics in general.