Bhaskar Chattopadhyay talks about his latest novel
The Hindu
The author's fourth whodunit, 'Best Served Cold', is set in a beautiful tea estate in the Dooars region of Bengal
In Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s, Best Served Cold, Janadhan Maity and Prakash set out to the beautiful tea estate in Manikpur in the Dooars region of Bengal. The elderly, wealthy estate owner is threatened by four people who he might have grievously injured. The title, the 42-year-old author says is not inspired by either Star Trek or Kill Bill. “It is part of the well-known proverb, ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold’ whose origin is both ancient and debatable. I usually like to begin my books with an epigraph, or a famous quote, or a stanza from a famous poem, which doubles up as a premonition of what is about to come, as well as a clue to the final solution. This time around, I decided that the title must serve both purposes.”
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