Deep State (Malayalam)-Upcoming
Book Two in the Richard Aston Series
The Chief Minister’s residence is one of the most heavily guarded compounds in the state. Ten-foot walls topped with razor wire. Sixty officers on duty. Commando protection at every door. And still, in the dead of night, his closest aide and de facto power behind the throne is found murdered feet from his room, killed with a spear torn from a million-dollar sculpture in the east corridor.
No fingerprints. No witnesses. No trace evidence the monsoon rain hasn’t already erased. As the investigation stalls and rival factions begin circling what remains of a government now missing its true architect, one officer is pulled back from years of political exile to do what the official inquiry cannot. What he uncovers reaches far beyond a single murder, into the machinery that decides who really governs when the cameras are off.
Deep State is the second novel in the Richard Aston series, following Seven Little Monkeys.
Seven Little Monkeys (Malayalam)
A Richard Aston Novel
When a boy drowns in the Periyar River, the official story closes the case within a week. Richard Aston ,a man carrying his own unfinished reckonings ,cannot let it close so easily. His search for the truth becomes a descent into a river town built on silence: old grudges dressed as customs, faith used as cover, and a community that has learned exactly what to remember and what to forget.
Seven Little Monkeys is a literary thriller about memory, guilt, and the quiet violence of what a town chooses not to say. It is the first novel in the Richard Aston series.
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Kaatadiyanthramgal (Malayalam)
Kattadiyanthrangal (The Windmills)
Political Revenge Thriller / Historical Mystery
Malayalam Edition :Sold Out | English Translation Forthcoming
New Year’s Eve, 1976. Three college friends vanish during a state sanctioned raid, swallowed by the machinery of India’s Emergency. Their bodies are never found. Forty years later, someone starts asking the questions the state buried with them.
What follows is not a search for justice in any clean sense. It is a reckoning built slowly, patiently, by someone willing to wait four decades to collect a debt. Betrayal wears the face of respectability here, and by the time the truth surfaces, it is already too late to stop what comes next.
Kattadiyanthrangal was my first published novel. Its Malayalam edition sold out; an English translation is forthcoming.
