Prey on the Prowl – A Crime Novel
BS Murthy
ISBN 81-901911-4-4
Improved Edition © 2021 BS Murthy
Original copyright © 2014 BS Murthy
Cover design of Gopi’s water color painting by Lattice Advertisers, Hyderabad.
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Hyderabad – 500 020
Other books by BS Murthy –
Benign Flame – Saga of Love
Jewel-less Crown - Saga of Life
Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth
Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel
Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock (A Novella)
Stories Varied - A Book of Short Stories
Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife
Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self – help (A translation in verse)
Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey (A translation in verse)
Agenda for Revenge
Chapter 1: Prey on the Prowl
Chapter 2: Shakeel’s Fixation
Chapter 3 : Ranjit’s Predicament
Chapter 4 : Rags to Riches
Chapter 5 : Dhruva’s Dilemma
Chapter 6: The Gatecrasher
Chapter 7: Operation Checkmate
Chapter 8: Foul on Pravar
Chapter 9: Stockholm Syndrome
Chapter 10: An Aborted Affair
Chapter 11: Psyche of Revenge
Chapter 12: Victim of Trust
Chapter 13: Backyard of Life
Chapter 14: Cuckoo’s Nest
Chapter 15: ‘Untried’ Crime
Chapter 16: Kavya’s Quagmire
Chapter 17: Murders to Mislead
Chapter 18: The Other Woman
Chapter 19: Shakeel’s Demise
Chapter 20: A Perfect Murder
Chapter 21: Deaths in Spandan
Chapter 22: Arraigned in Remand
Chapter 23: Depressing Discovery
Chapter 24: The Red Herring
Chapter 25: Wages of Abuse
Chapter 26: Decoding the Crime
Chapter 27: A Poignant End