Fast And The Dead

The quiet lanes of Habba Street are shaken when the wildly unpredictable Dondi Pais fires off her double-barrelled shotgun late into the night, scattering a pack of howling strays under a moonless sky. What starts as another of her bizarre outbursts takes a far darker turn come morning—when a bullet is found lodged in the skull of a bitter, sharp-tongued jeweller, lying lifeless in his own shop.

Panic spreads. Whispers multiply. Was it an accident—or a twisted form of justice? The locals, always ready with superstition and scandal, latch onto the one detail that truly chills the air: the jeweller’s wife had broken a sacred fast the evening before. Not long after, her husband was found dead.

“She defied the ritual,” they mutter. “And now look what’s happened.”

With rumours mounting and tempers flaring, the neighbourhood spirals into a frenzy of accusations, confessions, and strange coincidences. Behind lace curtains and rusted shutters, secrets begin to unravel of affairs, betrayals, debts, and long-forgotten curses. The line between divine wrath and human malice blurs, and no one is quite sure what—or who—to believe.

As the investigation deepens, one question rises above all others: was this divine punishment or deliberate murder?

Fast And The Dead is a sharp-edged, darkly humorous mystery steeped in folklore, petty feuds, and the messy reality of small-town lives. With each page, layers peel back to reveal that nothing is ever quite as simple—or innocent as it seems.

This is a tale where gossip is weaponized, tradition conceals transgression, and death has impeccable timing. As suspicions shift and alibis crumble, the truth proves more tangled than anyone imagined.

In Fast And The Dead, vengeance wears many masks some holy, some human, all deadly.

Step into a world where superstition meets scandal, and the past has a nasty habit of catching up. Prepare for a mystery that’s both wickedly clever and hauntingly plausible.

When the moon fails to rise, and the rituals go wrong, all that remains are the Fast And The Dead.