📕Red Cap Reckoning by Pallabi Ghoshal

BOOK DETAILS : 

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bigfoot Publications (25 August 2025)
• Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9363473465
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9363473461

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : 

Pallabi Ghoshal is the author of the books, "RED CAP RECKONING", "AN UNEXPECTED DETOUR" and "THE QUEST OF VERMILLION". Pallabi has also co-authored in 16 anthologies.

Pallabi Ghoshal is a passionate storyteller who loves sculpting stories that mirror the complexities of real life- when love transitions into obsession, silence masks deceit, and pasts that deny staying buried. Emotional ebb and flow or riveting mysteries, Pallabi’s stories are ruled by truth and tension, unraveling deep-buried secrets.

Born and brought up in Kolkata, Pallabi comes from an engineering background and has worked across diverse career domains. Pallabi’s thriller creations have buried truths clawing their way to the surface. The characters are often found balancing on a thin rope between guilt and redemption. Each dramatic twist seems like a reckoning in disguise.

In her world of storytelling, romance comes off layered with peril and redemption, camouflaged in unknown traps.

Follow her on social media as well to dive deeper into her literary journey.

BOOK REVIEW : 

What if the whispers in your head, the shadows at your back, and the footsteps you alone hear aren’t figments of imagination; but a chilling reality clawing its way into your life?

Pallabi Ghoshal’s Red Cap Reckoning is a taut psychological thriller that plunges you deep into the fragile mind of Ruma Sarkar, a high-functioning introvert whose life in Indore takes a sinister turn. What begins as faint patterns and unsettling encounters with a mysterious red-capped troupe soon spirals into a dangerous obsession. Are these intruders real, or a projection of Ruma’s unraveling sanity?

The brilliance of the book lies in how it blurs the thin line between illusion and reality. The tapping sounds, cryptic clues, and eerie figures move like chess pieces in a game where Ruma is both a player and the prey. When a private investigator enters the scene, long-buried secrets resurface, revealing a past that refuses to stay cremated. The narrative pulses with paranoia; every chapter peeling back layers of dread with the precision of a scalpel.

The writing is sharp and atmospheric, each page dripping with unease. Pallabi Ghoshal crafts her world like a noir painting: dim corners, muffled whispers, and shadows that breathe.

The pacing is cinematic; quiet stretches of psychological tension broken by jolting revelations that will make you flip pages deep into the night.

What makes “Red Cap Reckoning” stand out is its exploration of fear, not just the kind that stalks from outside, but the one that grows inside you, fed by loneliness, trauma, and half-buried truths. When reckoning finally arrives, it’s not with a knock but with an unshakable presence; inescapable and terrifying.

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