The Girl in Chains: She is safer in chains. Are you? From The Bestselling Author of The Girl in the Glass Case Comes | The New Simone Singh Thriller
Devashish Sardana, author of The Girl in the Glass Case, returns with another Simone Singh thriller, and it's a tense, absorbing ride from the very first page. The premise alone is enough to pull you in: at a crowded Delhi rally, a young woman raises a pistol, shoots a cabinet minister with startling precision, then turns the weapon on herself. Three instructions. Three actions. No hesitation. The media cries terrorism; the public murmurs suicide. CBI officer Simone Singh suspects something far more calculated. What follows is a layered investigation into conspiracy, control, and the kind of silence that powerful people buy. The assassin left virtually nothing behind, no clear motive, no traceable path, only a whispered name: Daayan. It's a ghost of a lead, and Simone is already stretched thin, caring for a dying mother while old shadows from her past close in around her. Sardana keeps the pressure building consistently. The personal and professional collide in ways that feel genuinely uncomfortable, and Simone is all the more compelling for it. She's not invincible. She bends. Inspector Lucas, her own partner, is concealing something that threatens to fracture everything between them, adding a layer of quiet dread to scenes that might otherwise feel routine. The writing is punchy where it needs to be and patient when the story demands it. Short, sharp chapters propel things forward, while the emotional weight of Simone's private life stops the narrative from becoming purely mechanical. A conspiracy reaching into the corridors of power, a detective running on grief and instinct, and a city tipping towards chaos. The Girl in Chains is gripping, emotionally honest crime fiction with real bite.
- Author: Devashish Sardana
- Publisher: Ebury Press
- Genre: Mystery
- ISBN: 978-0143480167
- Pages: 368 pages