Shadow Play
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Shadow Play by Rajorshi Chakraborti
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-312-64234-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-64234-1
Publication Date: July 2010
List Price: $24.99
Synopsis (from the publisher): Raj Chakraborti, internationally renowned novelist and commentator, has disappeared from public view. What’s worse, the police want to question him about the murder of a young journalist. Raj claims to explain everything in chapters from his latest work of fiction about a serial-killer-turned-hired-assassin. Is Raj right to believe that he is being hunted, or is it his past that has finally borne down to haunt him?