It helps if you already have a blog. It doesn't if the blog is inside a book that recently got published.

The Blogging Affair

Stripped off everything else, the book is a murder mystery. But its presentation is far from that of a classic whodunnit.

Three distinct narratives run in parallel throughout the book. First one is that of the inner voice of the guy who was having an extramarital affair with the dead girl, and thus naturally forms the main suspect of the crime. Reflecting on steamy scenes of his past misdemeanours, he is oblivious of the tightening noose around his neck. I've tried to depict him as a guy who's got sex on his mind, and that gave me an opportunity for word plays - in saucy ways. Second narrative is in the form of a blog. The reader will encounter it in reverse chronological order - latest entry coming first. In it the anonymous author claims to have murdered a woman, and the details suggest it is the same case. The blog show a gradual breakdown of an otherwise intelligent, witty individual commenting on a wide range of topics. This is where I brought in the 'asides' - PoVs on religion, education, politics and the like. The third narrative has the two police detectives trying to solve the crime, while also engaged in a battle of oneupmanship, one busy breaking down the prime suspect, the other trying to reconcile the well-organized mind behind the blog with the seemingly muddle-headed suspect. Are the two the same? Who killed? And how? That's what it's all about.