Fatal Belief
A Murder Mystery Novel (The Kanke Killings Trilogy)
by Kumar Kinshuk
Pub Date 26 Aug 2021
BooksGoSocial
Mystery & Thrillers


Through Books Go Social and Netgalley, I am reviewing Fatal Belief:


A number of murders have occurred. There are multiple suspects. There is a serial killer on the loose. In book #2 of The Kanke Killings Trilogy, will Vishal be able to capture the killer?


Kanke has committed multiple murders and caused mayhem. There is a frenzy among the police. A genius serial killer is on the loose in Ranchi, threatening the lives of everyone there. In the end, the police have only a handful of suspects.


There is a psychiatric hospital in Kanke. The hospital has a brilliant psychoanalyst who assists the police with the case. He hires a British nurse, Eva Black, to work in Kanke after she travels to India from London.
Can Eva find a mentor in Kanke? Is it possible for her to find love and belonging in a new country? Is Eva able to help the police and psychoanalyst investigate the serial killing case? Is Amrita able to save Alka from depression?


Discover the unraveling mysteries of The Kanke Killings Trilogy - Book 2 by peering into the lives of the ordinary citizens of Ranchi. Let your creative detective juices flow with impunity now as you decipher this intriguing, secretive murder mystery.


I give Fatal Belief four out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

Taking place in Kanke, India, Vishal is the detective on the trail of a serial killer. There have been multiple murders, with multiple suspects, with multiple motives.

A psychoanalyst who practices at a psychiatric hospital is a consultant for the police. Hopefully, he can help them identify the man they're looking for .. and his motive. His nurse, Eva Black, is a British citizen who travels from London to India to begin work. She, too, gets involved in helping the doctor and the police in looking for a murderer.

The more they look, the more they seek answers, the more frustrated they become. This killer is absolutely brilliant .. and seemingly always more than one step ahead of the police.

This is not a thriller. It's more drinking a glass of wine and the warmth starts spreading slowly throughout. This is an evenly paced murder mystery, made even more interesting as it is full of historical information about India. There are twists and turns ... following the clues is like looking into a murky body of water without a flashlight. It's hard to stop reading this one.

This is the 2nd in this trilogy and I strongly recommend reading in order. FATAL BELIEF ends with a cliffhanger that will be examined more closely in the 3rd book. Good news ... third book (DAYBREAK) will be available November 2021.

Many thanks to the author / BooksGoSocial / Netgalley for the digital copy of this mystery. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

KANKE KILLINGS: FATAL BELIEF 📚

Multiple murders. Multiple suspects. A serial killer is on the loose. Can Vishal apprehend the killer in book #2 of The Kanke Killings Trilogy? Kanke has had multiple murders and mayhem. The police are in a tizzy. There is a genius serial killer on the loose, threatening the hell out of the lives of every person at Ranchi. The police have a handful and they are at a dead end. Kanke has a psychiatric hospital. The hospital has a brilliant psychoanalyst who helps the police with the case. His Nurse, Eva Black, is a British citizen who travels from London to India and begins her work routine in Kanke. Would Eva find a mentor in Kanke? Can she find love and belonging in a new country? Can Eva help the police and the psychoanalyst with their investigations into the serial killing case? Can Amrita save Alka from her depression? Peek into the lives of the ordinary citizens of Ranchi and find out the unraveling mysteries of The Kanke Killings Trilogy – Book 2. Find it out for yourself because here is a surprising, secretive murder mystery, waiting for you to decipher by allowing your creative detective juices to flow with impunity, now.

So this was a weird read for me. I enjoyed reading it and read it within a day but there were times where it felt really badly written. There’s a lot of very short sentences and at some points it felt like things didn’t flow very well. The ending for me is quite predictable but the way it’s revealed is almost as though the authors given up and just wants to get it all out on paper. I’m not sure if it’s a language things but it just doesn’t sound right all the time! The actual storyline is very good though it’s just the writing style that I struggled with.

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First of all, I think following a young British Indian nurse was amazing, I rarely see Indian nurses represented in many books at all really, so this was the perfect read for me. Again, it’s a mystery thriller that I throughly enjoyed. Thrillers do take a lot for me to enjoy them because they can be so difficult to engage with and sometimes the plots are all over this place and they are rarely rated highly by me at all. But in this case I think everything was well done and executed perfectly. I’ll definitely pick up more from this author soon. 5/5 stars!