Length11h 26m
About this audiobook
A daughter’s grief becomes a death sentence when her father’s sacred oath points to the most dangerous men in Tamil Nadu.
She flew home to cremate a father she hadn’t forgiven. She stayed because someone made sure she would never get answers.
When a decorated thirty-year veteran of the Tamil Nadu Police is found dead on the summit of Palani Hills — prayer beads in his fingers, a cardiac arrest verdict rubber-stamped in forty-eight hours — no one asks the uncomfortable questions. No one except his estranged daughter Valli, a criminal psychologist who knows what a cover-up looks like from the inside out.
Hidden inside a letter only she could find, two words change everything: the oath.
What Valli uncovers reaches back twenty years — to a murdered tribal rights activist, a land fraud conspiracy swallowing thousands of acres of sacred forest, and a vow sworn by four men beneath the eyes of Lord Murugan. A vow her father had finally decided to break.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length11 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: The Summit
4Chapter 2: The Prodigal Return
5Chapter 3: The Department’s Version
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6Chapter 4: The Last Case File
7Chapter 5: Kavadi
8Chapter 6: The Oath Stone
9Chapter 7: Her Father’s Shadow
10Chapter 8: The Witness Who Vanished
11Chapter 9: Senthil’s Game
12Chapter 10: The Dandapani Files
13Chapter 11: Poison in the Ritual
14Chapter 12: Twenty Years Ago
15Chapter 13: The House of Secrets
16Chapter 14: Velan’s Confession
17Chapter 15: The River Runs Cold
18Chapter 16: An Old Man’s Truth
19Chapter 17: The Second Body
20Chapter 18: Breaking the Oath
21Chapter 19: The Temple at Midnight
22Chapter 20: The Kavadi Bearer’s Secret
23Chapter 21: Trust No One
24Chapter 22: The Evidence
25Chapter 23: Into the Hills
26Chapter 24: The Reckoning
27Chapter 25: After the Oath
28Character Guide
29References & Bibliography
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