Book Review on Alka Dimri Saklani's 45 Days In A Cancer Hospital

45 DAYS IN A CANCER HOSPITAL

BY

ALKA DIMRI SAKLANI

The main plot of this murder mystery revolves around the lives of people suffering from Cancer. The main character in this thrilling story is Dr. Chatterjee who has dedicated himself to the treatment of cancer patients as even he had lost his mother suffering from Cancer.

The story starts with experiences of the newbie writer Alka Dimri Saklani with cancer patients and then suddenly takes a turn towards the mysterious murder of many patients.

Well if the reader is one who has a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type of fiction stories then this surely is a read, as the writer turns into a detective one. She comes across the mis-happenings in Mumbai’s leading cancer hospital.

Nevertheless the story is a sure thriller and keeps the reader glued until the mystery unravels. The story throws a lot of incidents that lead to the plot behind the brutal deaths of so many patients with the writer participating quite intellectually with the help of her school friend and CBI officer Animesh.

The writer takes the plot to its finality to disclose the psycho behavior that has led to the entire plotting of murders in a melodramatic manner. The flow of the story is smooth and everyone can follow easily.

The writer has chapters named after each day at the hospital and it feels like even we are experiencing each day at the hospital along with this stupendous writer. 

There is gripping suspense that makes the reading quite interesting and at times empathetic towards those suffering from Cancer. Even the title of the book is an apt one with the entire mystery getting solved within this time span.

I simply loved the story due to the trepidation that keeps the entire story alive until the last page. For a first time writer like Alka this book is surely a thumb’s up from me.

Rating: ☆☆☆1/2

~overview~

Terminal cancer patients in the most prestigious hospital of Mumbai are being murdered under the masquerade of natural death. Why would anyone kill poor cancer patients who are anyhow going to breathe their last in some time? Who can benefit from such a heinous act? Why all deaths seem to be natural when actually they are planned? These are the questions Ashritha, a novel writer who is staying in the hospital to write her book on cancer patients, is struggling to unravel, risking her own life. Initially she shrugs off her suspicion as she finds it illogical, but later the odd incidents going on in the hospital force her to take her suspicion seriously. Challenging all the dangers head on, she digs for the truth and unearths secrets deeply woven within the hospital, with the help of his college friend and CBI officer Animesh. What comes out as a wretched act initially turns out to be a deeply woven plan and a heinous conspiracy. 45 Days in a Cancer Hospital is a suspense thriller with a strong female protagonist and a series of shocking events that culminate in a shocker. The story also touches on the life of doctors and cancer patients and is woven around aspiration, love, hatred, betrayal, greed and suspense within the walls of the hospital that takes place during the 45 days of Ashritha's stay.