The Girl in Chains

Kill the target. Kill the evidence. Kill yourself.
A killer who had never fired a gun in her life―until she took a perfect headshot. A puppet who didn’t know she had strings. A detective chasing ghosts through her grief.
At a packed rally in Delhi, a young woman calmly raises a pistol and executes a cabinet minister. Then, without hesitation, she turns the gun on herself. The media screams terrorism. The public whispers suicide. But CBI officer Simone Singh sees something colder. A setup.
While nursing her dying mother and fending off shadows from her past, Simone is hurled into the most personal case of her life. The assassin left behind no motive, no trail―just a single whispered name: Daayan.
Worse, Simone’s own partner, Inspector Lucas, is hiding a secret that could destroy everything they’ve built.
As the body count rises and Delhi spirals into chaos, Simone must uncover a conspiracy woven through power and silence. But in a game where everyone is a pawn, exposing the truth might be the very thing that finally breaks her.
Twisted, taut, and emotionally explosive, The Girl in Chains is a heart-stopping race against the truth that was never meant to survive.

Devashish Sardana is the author of the bestselling The Girl in the Glass Case, The Girl with Broken Dreams and The Girl on Fire. The Girl in Chains, a psychological crime thriller, is his fourth book in the Simone Singh series and continues his lifelong love affair with thriller fiction, his passion for suspenseful cinema, and his own struggles with mental health as a kid.
The result, he hopes, is a psychological crime thriller in the vein of Gillian Flynn, Lisa Jewell and Shari Lapena, among others. Devashish lives in Singapore with his wife and college sweetheart, Megha. He flits across the globe selling hope in a jar (beauty creams).