About the Book

A GRITTY, BREATHTAKING READ THAT REALLY GETS UNDER THE SKIN OF DELHI AND ANNOUNCES AN EXCITING NEW VOICE IN CRIME WRITING.
When a young girl falls to a gory death from the terrace of a plush mansion, an overworked Delhi Police sees an open-and-shut case of accident or suicide. But sent down to cool off after an outer district gangland arrest are the newly arrived Crime Branch unit of Inspector Kumar and his young team. Squeezing himself into a case no one wants to chase, the self-doubting inspector, parent to a dead daughter himself, is convinced that all is not sparkling clean in the astringent interiors of the house where the minor girl was a full-time domestic.
Minutely plotted and sharply written, this dark tale of everyday violence twists and turns, plunging through layers of Delhi society and unifying its vast geography in a terrifying investigation.

About the Author

Between 2016 and 2018 Rudraneil Sengupta embedded with the Delhi Police for a series of investigative reports for a national broadsheet. This is his first novel. He is also the author of Enter the Dangal: Travels through India’s Wrestling Landscape.