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In 2020, a homicide in a nondescript village of Kerala sent shock waves across the country. Who were the perpetrators? How was the evidence collected? Why did the prosecution want the crime to be classified as 'rarest of rare'? In the gruesome crime that was committed, a husband was alleged to have murdered his wife by inducing cobra bites. The police worked round-the-clock under intense pressure to collect evidence in a case where the slithering 'murder weapon' had a mind of its own. State-of-the-art investigation techniques were employed, witnesses were interrogated, and immunity deals were struck, leading to a landmark judgment of double life imprisonment. From best-selling crime writers, Aloke Lal and Maanas Lal, based on official records and court transcripts, comes the true story of Kerala's infamous 'snake bite murder’. A page-turner, Fangs of Death gives the phrase 'murdered in cold blood' a horrific new dimension.
Maanas Lal has built a formidable reputation across genres of art. Apart from penning hundreds of columns for the print media, he is the co-author of Murder in the Bylanes: Life and Death in a Divided City and On the Trail of Thugs and Thieves: True Accounts of Crime from the Hindi Heartland. His work in the fields of painting, photography and digital art has found collectors across the globe. A software engineer, he has used his expertise in technology to develop a unique style of digital painting. He holds soft skills workshops in India's leading schools and professional institutions. He is a TEDx speaker. He is also the secretary of the Doon Cultural and Literary Society. A gold medallist IIT-ian, Aloke Lal joined the IPS in 1975. He served for thirty-seven years in the khaki, rising to the top rank of director-general. He received two medals from the President of India-one for long and meritorious services' and the other for 'distinguished services?. He is the author of The Barabanki Narcos: Busting India's Most Notorious Drug Cartel and co-author of Murder in the Bylanes: Life and Death in a Divided City and On the Trail of Thugs and Thieves: True Accounts of Crime from the Hindi Heartland. A TEDx speaker, Aloke is festival director of the Crime Literature Festival of India.
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