• Crime - English

    Tea and Blood

    Roshan Lama 1 The mist clung heavily to the slopes of Darjeeling that morning, veiling the tea gardens in a silvery pallor that made everything look otherworldly. The Caldwell bungalow stood aloof on its rise, a relic of colonial grandeur with its sloping roof and wide verandah, but something about its silence felt wrong. It was the watchman Hari Das who first raised the alarm, his shaking hands pointing toward the half-opened door where the lamps still burned from the night before. Inside, Richard Caldwell, the formidable manager of the estate, lay sprawled across a Persian rug in the drawing…

  • English - Suspense

    The House on Mango Lane

    Chapter One: The Return The monsoon clouds trailed her like a shadow across the sky as Naina D’Costa stepped off the plane at Dabolim Airport, the humidity of Goa clinging to her skin like memory. She hadn’t been back in ten years, not since the funeral of her grandfather, and certainly not since the family’s carefully unspoken fallout with her grandmother, Amelia D’Costa. Now, Amelia was gone, and Naina had returned not for sentiment but for closure—to sign papers, to meet the property agent, to photograph the house one last time before it was sold. The cab wound its way…