MellowDrama

I am a thrillers fan.  Alistair MacLean This obsession sort of started in my early teens when I would devour The Hardy Boys and the Nanacy Drews in the school library and went back asking for more. My father and mother, both avid readers, had the entire Sherlock Holmes' collection at home. Someone gave me a Sidney Sheldon as a birthday present and a few years later my uncle opened the doors of his home library to me (which washout of bounds till I was a certain age) and I was almost drowning in the worlds created by James Hadley Chase, Alistair MacLean, Leon Uris and the likes. If you have been a regular reader of my blog then you would know Hercule Poirot how after my daughter was born I completely lost touch with reading till a friend gifted me a Poirot ( It was the first one that Sophie Hannah had written resurrecting the little detective with an egg shaped head).  As I got more and more involved in the business of thrillers, mysteries and crime novels, I...

There has been a sort of a break in the momentum in my reading of thrillers where a DI (Detective Inspector) a PI (Police /Private Investigator) makes his/her first appearance. But like they say you can keep me away from my those firsts but you can't keep me away from thrillers, and so I am back with the review of the debut novel, a crime thriller, Your Truth or Mine? by Trisha Saklecha published by Pan Macmillan this year. I won this book in a giveaway contest held on twitter. Without much ado lets dive into why or why not should you read this novel. Your Truth or Mine? is the story of an Indian couple Roy and Mia who live in London. The narrative goes back and forth between Roy and Mia as a tale of infidelity, anxiety, depression, drug use and murder unfolds in roughly 500 pages. The book opens with  a couple of detectives visiting their home for asking some questions to Roy related  to the disappearance of a girl names Emily.  Roy and Mia are a happily married c...