Sumit Ghosal is a capital market specialist with two-and-a-half decades of experience in his chosen field. He works for one of the top three software companies in India as part of their capital market practices group. Ghosal’s first love was always the written word and his reading list includes a wide range of genres with Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe,Wilkie Collins and John le Carré being major influences. He is fond of travel and his favourite vacation would involve trekking in a remote forest. Ghosal has a B.E, M.Tech and MBA (Finance) in academics and lives in Bangalore with his wife and son. The Dead Don’t Talk is his first novel.
The Dead Don’t Talk is a thrilling murder mystery in the classical mould, featuring the private investigator Rudradeep Ray and his best friend Sujit. Based in Calcutta of the turbulent seventies, the story is set in the palatial home of the Ganguly family where a member of the household is found murdered inside a locked room. As Rudradeep pieces together a complicated puzzle, he has to contend with hostile witnesses and perplexing clues, with the police forming a reluctant ally. Rudradeep delves deeper into the crime, uncovering layer after layer of deceit and lies. No one is what they appear to be and almost every member of the Ganguly family has had a direct or indirect motive to commit the murder. As the murderer strikes a second time, Rudradeep leads the case to a shocking conclusion.
