Book Review: Unofficial Crimes by Nupur Luthra

I have a weakness for going to bookstores and picking up indie books. 

This has led to the reading of many good books. 

Unofficial Crimes by Nupur Luthra is a book of short stories. Most of the stories have a component of the supernatural. It would have been nice to put that more prominently on the blurb, instead of a passing reference in the last line. 

The stories are intriguing, for the most part. The book is short and you can decide quickly whether or not a story is working for you. The writing style is good. 

Unfortunately, for me, this book is an avoidable miss. The plots did not speak to me at all. The first story started with two murders and completely side-stepped into a ghostly adventure for the girlfriend of one of the victims. From there, it kind of went downhill. If some plots held promise, that promise was soon washed out by quickly glossed over solutions. But the pace was excellent. The stories were not slow. If anything, they were, at places, too fast-paced to allow the reader to get the scene before moving on to the next event. 

The book is available on Amazon India and has decent reviews. 

https://www.amazon.in/UNOFFICIAL-CRIMES-COLLECTION-SHORT-STORIES/dp/B0B6SK6G6T