Maggie Must Die: Panchatantra Pranksters (It's time)

By Mishaa Edith

Five men. One woman. One prank. And a fire that changed everything.

When Inspector Kamal stops a speeding Innova at the Athibele border checkpoint at midnight, he expects drunk drivers. What he gets is five middle-aged YouTubers - schoolmates, pranksters, and men with secrets - fleeing Bangalore with a scorched hotel robe and no good explanation.

By dawn, Kamal has five men in five cells and one question: what happened in Suite 404 of The Residency?

Each man holds a piece of her. A helicopter pilot with a broken marriage. A startup founder who can't account for his money. A doctor haunted by a ghost from college. A quarry owner being squeezed for five crores. A father who needs three crores for his son's surgery - and a promise from the one woman who said she would help.

Her name is Maggie. And the forensics report says she is dead.

But the carry-on bag is missing. The laundry cart moved at the wrong time. And someone has wiped forty minutes of hotel CCTV.

Maggie Must Die is a fast-paced Indian crime novelette set across one night in contemporary Bangalore - a murder interrogation thriller, with a ending that will stay with you long after the turmeric fields fade from view.

The book is available in kindle and paperback

Inspector Kamal returns. The city never sleeps. Neither does he.

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Series Description

It's time for murder mysteries - Series: murder mysteries set in modern Bangalore and rest of India, where every case pulls one straight-talking cop deeper into the beautiful, complicated, and occasionally criminal soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H17GST2G
• ISBN13: 9798196224577
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"