Format: ebook
Published: 13th January, 2026
Age: Adult
Genre: Thriller
Rating: 1/5 Stars
Triple Threat focuses on Dimple Kapoor and Saffi Iyer; Dimple is an actress, constantly competing against her rival for the same parts, until a convenient accident allows Dimple to land a job in the upcoming film said rival was supposed to star in. Saffi is a PI, summoned from Europe to help her old friends crack a seemingly impossible case.
Except it’s not seemingly impossible and this whole book had me questioning the intelligence of both Dimple and Saffi. Dimple’s rival comes from a family rich enough to hire Private Investigators to look into their daughter’s death, and it’s apparent right from the start they have money to spare. Yet anyone in a position to say different immediately judge the death an accident, not a murder, and despite said accident happening at a party with plenty of people in attendance, no one notices the dead body at the bottom of the stairs, or if they did they kept it super quiet as it’s days before the death is made public. You can’t tell me in the age of phones and social medial something like this could happen at a party and have no one see? Or sell their story to TMZ?
This book contains many such instances. The PIs hired soon realise they’re out of their depth, because apparently people with that much money can’t afford to hire someone with actual murder experience, and they summon their old friend Saffi, who proceeds to…do nothing with the case. Seriously. She’s meant to be this hotshot PI who’s solved loads of cases in Europe (can you even work as a PI in ‘Europe’, let alone that many different countries, with an American licence?), not that we ever get any mention of them or what they were. Just that she’s incredible. But had to leave for…reasons. Reasons which are revealed later and actually do nothing to paint her in a better light!
This book is riddled with so many plot holes it’s shocking it only has one gun. This isn’t even a “root for the villains” moment. It’s a…who the hell am I supposed to be rooting for here? Because it wasn’t Dimple nor Saffi – both voices were way too similar to get any real feel for them, the moment Saffi meets Dimple the dialogue is shockingly bad, and full of Saffi basically saying “Hey, Dimple, I know you’re the real killer”, and Dimple going “oh but I’m not” with a huge wink. Saffi is surprised she can’t find anything under the name Dimple Kapoor because huge surprise, an actress who has ‘trademark dimples’ going by the name Dimple is working under a false name.
There’s this constant sense that the characters are supposed to be smarter than they actually are. If this was leaning more towards female rage, I think it would have worked much better, but if you were to list Dimple’s victims, the majority are women. I would have bought into the idea of pinning it on the abusive Hollywood director more if it wasn’t so hypocritical, with Dimple angry that her co-star has ‘gotten away with’ killing someone in a drink driving accident (he does and he doesn’t – he does go to rehab, film proceeds go to charity, etc. IRL, I think his actions would be more unforgiveable), but when she reflects on this it’s hard to feel any sympathy for her, seeing as she’s murdered multiple people by this point.
The book is overall messy and disjointed, and way too padded out with repetition between the two characters. There are issues here that I think are becoming more of an overall issue in trad published books, and they make for a poor reading experience. Unfortunately, this book seems to have suffered from a major lack of editing, and I really wouldn’t recommend it.
Reading Challenge
Twenty Genres in 2026
Prompt: Thriller
Progress: 5/20
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