The Geometry of Ghosts: The Physics of Revenge - Couverture souple

P.K. Senapati

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798902319931

Editeur : Notion Press, 2026

Synopsis

A ghost cannot tie a knot. A ghost cannot calibrate a voltage. But in the village of Jakpur, the dead are doing exactly that.

In the hinterlands of West Bengal, the past doesn’t die—it just waits for the rain to wash it clean. Thirty years ago, the wealthy Chatterjee family murdered an outcast to protect their gold, burying him beneath a banyan tree. They thought the red earth would hold their secret.

They were wrong. Now, the debt has come due.

One by one, the Chatterjee heirs are meeting gruesome, impossible ends. A man drowns in a shallow pond with dry lungs. Another is found nailed to a granary wall during a storm. A third drives off a cliff, blinded by a sun that shouldn't exist at midnight.

To the terrified villagers, it is the work of a vengeful spirit. To Inspector Sagar Mondal, a man born of the village dust but raised by the law, it looks like a masterpiece of engineering. At every crime scene, he finds a single red thread—not a ritual binding, but a mechanical trigger.

Sagar’s investigation leads him to the local Ashram and its enigmatic saint, Murari Baba—a man who preaches peace but possesses the callused hands of a chemist. As the monsoon turns the soil to blood-colored mud, Sagar realizes he isn’t chasing a ghost, but a killer using physics to simulate the supernatural.

Caught between the corrupt history of the landlords and the cold logic of the killer, Sagar must decide what matters more: the law of the state, or the justice of the soil.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Notion Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798902319931
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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