Kurie Pawa Pendrive

A holiday trip to the Himalayas proves to be more exciting for Tupur as his detective aunt Mitin stumbles across a pendrive left in a guest house. A sinister plot is exposed but the criminals seem to be off the grid. Infact the loot also seems to vanish. But Mitin picks up bits and pieces of clues and works on her hunches that seem to solve the case. Though intuitions of detectives are sometimes considered fair but in this case the clues seemed to follow her rather than she deducing where to look. Guesses click like anything and sometimes it is felt that the method is not exhaustive but it must be said that the overall mystery is quite interesting. Partha's comic relief shows signature class of Bhattacharya. So the fans of Mitin stories must have a go at this novel published by Patra Bharati. A truly cute pocket book this will effortelssy find room in a sligthly oversized pocket.

Chokta Sudokur

When Partha won a free trip to Singapore by cracking a sudoku square, Mitin smells something fishy in the entire scheme. But everything seems to sail smooth except for Sujit Dutta, a businessman who tries to get too friendly with them. Though the scene was about to change when Partha seemed to misplace the original authentication letter and deposited the scanned copy of the same. The agency sponsoring Partha's trip seems to insist hard on acquiring the original and a room supposedly occupied by his family is ransacked during the inmates' absence. Mitin senses a curiously sinister plot and rushes to unfold a mystery that baffled quite a few clever minds. An unusual plot blended with anecdotes of Singapore's history and descriptions of the present city Bhattacharya presents a tight narrative that uses humour in the right quantity wihtout compromising on the main theme.

Guptadhaner Gujab

As Mitin starts to investigate the rumour of a hidden treasure, albeit Partha's doubt in it, she seems to get more and more interested as the investigations progressed in the semi-dilapidated mansions of the Bagchi's at Nurpur. Amidst the treasure seekers haunting the house quite often, ghostly sounds disturb the residents at night. But what actually is happening behind all these? Mitin is intrigued  by the case and asks Partha to do some research that reveals an ancient crime hidden in the dark chambers of the basement. But is it enough? Is the past crime threatening some revenge? Or is some sinister forces of the present trying to take hold of the mansions? All these the readers may find out once they accompanby Mitin, Tupur and sometimes Partha, in their adventure in the novel set at semi-rural Bengal.

Though Suchitra Bhattacharya's detective novels are quite appealing but for one very disturbing point that lies in the names of the characters. By choosing very unique and sometimes quite extraodrinary names for the characters, Mrs. Bhattacharya seems to make fiction more fictional that is quite undue. Prajnyaparamita (Mitin) is ok and it definitely sets her detective aside the others but starting from Anishchoy Majumdar, the recurring IG character, whose name she now cannot change but can definitely offer some good excuse as to exactly what uncertainty the officer's parents were thinking of while naming him, to the client, her naming standard seems very unreal and this, if not anything else, tries to focus on characters rather than the central mystery.

Jonathaner Barir Bhut

Suchitra Bhattacharya weaves suspense as alleged poltergeist activities haunts an Anglo-Indian family. Shaking furniture and a host lot of other troubles terrorizes the infabitants and Mitin and Tupur enters the scene with the everdear Partha accompanying them. As Mitin searches up clues a new mystery evolves hinting to a lost treasure with a riddle left behind to solve it. The evil seems to lurk in the deep recess of the minds of the seemingly innocent ones and Mitin is determined to unmask them. A good story for the young minds with multiple plots never complicating the flow the writer presents a graphic narration of detection and mystery. Only one major complain that I noticed is during an irrelevant remark of Mitin whers she tries to relate a procedure with its digital analogue but the logic is so very erroneous that it leaves a scar on the intelligence of the detective.