Length11h 48m
About this audiobook
Some debts aren’t paid in money — they’re paid in blood, sixty years after the theft.
The ancient temple city has kept its secrets for sixty years. Tonight, it will keep them no longer.
When the patriarch of one of Madurai’s most powerful dynasties is found dead inside a temple’s inner sanctum during the blazing spectacle of the Panguni Uthiram festival, the city’s fragile order begins to crack. What surfaces beneath the rubble isn’t just murder — it’s a decades-long conspiracy of forged land records, a silenced lawyer, and an entire farming village robbed of everything they ever owned.
Retired police commissioner Rajan Venkataraman knows corruption when he sees it. He helped bury it once. Now, alongside sharp-eyed Inspector Kavitha Nair, he must dismantle a dynasty built on stolen ground — even as the truth threatens to destroy the career he spent a lifetime constructing.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: The Blood of Panguni
4Chapter 2: A Retired Man’s Phone
5Chapter 3: The Dynasty of Nagammal Street
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6Chapter 4: The Second Wound
7Chapter 5: Corridors of Stone
8Chapter 6: The Language of Pattas
9Chapter 7: The Architect and His Blueprints
10Chapter 8: The Missing Deed
11Chapter 9: The Real Estate Reckoning
12Chapter 10: The Village That Was Erased
13Chapter 11: The Granddaughter Speaks
14Chapter 12: The Advocate’s Ghost
15Chapter 13: The Clerk Who Knew Too Much
16Chapter 14: The Locket’s Secret
17Chapter 15: The Letter in the Wall
18Chapter 16: Thirty Years of Silence
19Chapter 17: The Politician’s Fingerprints
20Chapter 18: The Vault Beneath the Temple
21Chapter 19: The Shape of the Killer
22Chapter 20: The Hunt Through Nagammal Street
23Chapter 21: The Truth of Keezhapatti
24Chapter 22: The Architect’s Confession
25Chapter 23: Thevariyan’s Move
26Chapter 24: The Reckoning in the Open
27Chapter 25: What the Stone Remembers
28Character Guide
29References & Bibliography
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