The Girl on Fire: Some Fires Burn Forever | Book 3 in the Simone Singh series
Three charred bodies in Kullu. A nurse who has vanished without trace. Two thin threads of evidence that may, or may not, lead anywhere useful. Devashish Sardana sets up his third Simone Singh thriller with the kind of cold efficiency that immediately pulls you forward. Fresh off a suspension, IPS Simone Singh is dropped straight into a baffling string of killings at a regional hospital in Himachal Pradesh. Doctors are being targeted, and the case should, in theory, be straightforward. It isn't. Witnesses contradict one another, evidence disappears at inconvenient moments, and the medical staff Simone interviews seem collectively allergic to the truth. The investigation keeps folding back on itself in ways that feel genuinely frustrating rather than artificially contrived. Running parallel to Simone's story is Aadya, the missing nurse at the centre of it all. She's fleeing something she once thought would save her, driven entirely by the need to keep her child safe. Her chapters carry a quiet, suffocating dread. Enemies seem to materialise wherever she turns, and the walls close in with each passing page. It's tense in a way that feels personal rather than procedural. Sardana juggles both perspectives with confidence, and the momentum rarely lets up. If you've followed Simone Singh from the beginning, this instalment rewards your patience. If it's your first encounter with her, you'll find plenty here to pull you into the earlier books.
- Author: Devashish Sardana
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-0143463733
- Pages: 288 pages