The Fifty-First Piece: A Kolkata Thriller - Softcover

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The eyes are painted last.

On the dawn of Mahalaya, when all of Kolkata wakes to give its clay goddesses their eyes, the city's most beloved idol-maker is found without his — his own lids painted shut in the long lashes of a deity, his third eye weeping vermilion, and a single number scrawled in red beside the body. Fifty-one.

Detective Inspector Tilottama Sen has stood over two hundred corpses. She has never found one signed in the handwriting of the sister who vanished seventeen years ago.

As Durga Puja climbs through its sacred days toward the night the goddess is carried to the river, a killer is rebuilding her shattered body across the city — choosing victims the law set free, taking from each the very piece the old myth says fell there, and counting down to a final offering. To stop him, Tilo must read a map written in scripture and blood. It leads through the rituals of her city, through a buried case no one was allowed to solve, and home — to the one truth she has spent her whole life refusing to see.

A literate, pitiless serial-killer thriller steeped in the festivals, faith, and fault lines of Kolkata — for readers of dark international crime fiction.

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