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Abyss

 
Abyss

Sabarna Roy

About the book

Abyss is a full length play in two acts with an interval in between. It is essentially a racy crime thriller full of gritty suspense. Act one builds up slowly to result in a crescendo of conflicts between personalities and ideas finally to end with an unnatural death before the interval. Is it a suicide or a murder? Act two evolves through a series of incisive interrogations to unravel the truth, which is deeply disturbing and affecting. As the play unfolds into a very well crafted situational thriller, underneath is the debate about using land for agriculture or for industry, the ethics of a working author and the nexus of a modern state all wonderfully enmeshed into its storyline and the personal lives of its subtly etched out characters. The highpoints of the play are its central conflict between a mother and her daughter and its female sleuth ? Renuka

About the Author:

Sabarna Roy (44) is a qualified Civil Engineer from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He works in a senior management position in a manufacturing and engineering construction company. An avid reader and a film buff, Roy is widely travelled in India and lives in Kolkata with his family. He started writing during his university days, mostly English and Bengali poems. He stopped writing after he left university and took up employment. After a gap of 19 years, he started writing once again mostly to reconnect with himself. In 2010 he published a book comprising a long story and four long narrative poems titled Pentacles and in 2011 a book comprising a story cycle (of 14 short stories) and a poem cycle (of 21 poems) titled Frosted Glass with Frog Books. Roy has a dedicated page on www.oxfordbookstore.com. He can be contacted at storyteller10097@gmail.com.

Review of the book:

Do you happen to know a woman who was married by the age of 16, had a baby by 18 and lost her husband by the age of 24 in an accident?
Can you imagine how her life would have been?
The cover of this book is really nice and has that essence of a li’l suspense in it. The title “Abyss” literally means “a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm”, which I suppose goes with the plot of the novel.
Abyss is a crime thriller with a suspensive plot and I bet you didn’t guess so by the introduction of this review.
 Although the number of characters are high but the Author has done a really good job in not making this story confusing at all for the readers.
 I do not usually read crime thrillers but this one kept me hooked till the end.
I would definitely suggest it to the readers who are beginners or a crime thriller lovers.

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