Blood Red Sari by Ashok Banker

Blood Red Sari by Ashok K. Banker
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The story that the author tells is about three ladies who (one later comes to know that there is a fourth lady who is alluded to, but never introduced in the book) receive similar packages from a lady in Kerala.
In just a couple of days time the lives of all the three ladies are turned upside down. The gym run by one of them is shutdown by political goons in Kolkatta and an attempt is made on her life.
The second, in Delhi, who has just won a case against her abusive husband and in-laws finds that her office is ransacked, her secretary is raped and killed the pet dog outside her office and her pups are killed and her office is burnt down with her inside it. She finds herself being chased by a blond guy and few others and thanks to the security guard in her office she manages to keep her life. She finds all her friends turning against her overnight and finds that the ruling the court case that she won has been changed against her in the records of the court.
The third returns to her native town Thiruvananthapuram at the behest of her abhorred brothers and finds herself running for her life from her own brothers. She ends up in a zoo where a father comes to her rescue.
All the three are incapable of understanding the contents of the package that they receive, but have somebody interpreting it for them. They are too late to prevent the disaster that is spelled out in the package. The book culminates with the beginning of the execution of the plan which is in their hands.
Possibly the author is planning a second part of the novel as he has managed to save all the three ladies in question and has kept the fourth one in the dark.
A decent read.

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