Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel
Publisher: Project Gutenberg Self-publishing Press http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0003437464-Prey-on-the-Prowl--A-Crime-Novel--by-Murthy--BS.aspx?
Published: 2014
Place of publication: India
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 92
Copyright date: 2014
First sentence: That June evening, the crimson sun gave in to the dark monsoon clouds to let them end its long summer reign over the Deccan skies.
Description: Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life. 
But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of murders. 
So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice?
Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one?  
Could it be Radha under the scanner for her role in the death of her husband Madhu and his mistress Mala, Pravar's sister? 
Or was it Ranjit's spouse Kavya, who owing to Stockholm Syndrome, takes to Pravar her kidnapper.
As these deaths by poisoning puzzle Dhruva, Radha avers that Kavya had the motive and the means to kill her spouse, her paramour and his wife besides the cop.
However, reckoning that when the ill-motives of the natural suspects to commit a murder are an open secret, someone with a hidden agenda might be tempted to use that as a camouflage for his subterfuge, Dhruva begins to look around for the culprit.
Table of contents: title: 1. Prey on the Prowl; title: 2. Shakeel’s Fixation; title: 3. Ranjit’s Predicament; title: 4. Rags to Riches; title: 5. Dhruva’s Dilemma; title: 6. The Gatecrasher; title: 7. Operation Checkmate; title: 8. Foul on Pravar; title: 9. Stockholm Syndrome; title: 10. An Aborted Affair; title: 11. Psyche of Revenge; title: 12. Victim of Trust; title: 13. Backyard of Life; title: 14. Cuckoo’s Nest; title: 15. ‘Untried’ Crime; title: 16. Kavya’s Quagmire; title: 17. Murders to Mislead; title: 18. The Other Woman; title: 19. Shakeel’s Demise; title: 20. A Perfect Murder; title: 21. Deaths in Spandan; title: 22. Arraigned in Remand; title: 23. Depressing Discovery; title: 24. The Red Herring; title: 25. Wages of Abuse; title: 26. Decoding the Crime; title: 27. A Poignant End