Baptism by Fire: Darjeeling Days, Darjeeling Nights

Book excerpt: Baptism by Fire is a collection of five investigative stories of an enterprising new-age detective duo – Samrat Sanyal and Aveek Gupta. Samrat is an ex-government sleuth turned private eye, while Aveek is cyber-security professional turned detective. Set in different locales, our new age detective duo crack some complex and nerve-wracking cases. From being called upon to solve the disappearance of a labour leader in the tea gardens near Darjeeling to the mysterious death of a regular hiker in the Table Mountains of Cape Town, or searching for a missing island in the exotic Andaman and Nicobar, to investigating the murder of a management school student – they’ve done it all. Darjeeling Days, Darjeeling Nights is set in the scintillating Darjeeling where Samrat and Aveek go on a holiday and stay at an uncle’s tea garden estate. They are called in to investigate the sudden disappearance of a labour contractor on pay day.