Length9h 44m
About this audiobook
Eighteen chiselled marks. Six murders. One epigrapher running out of stone to stand on.
A slab of black granite shouldn’t be able to get anyone killed. But when Dr. Vaidehi Sundaresan is called in to authenticate an inscription pulled from the ruins of a Srirangam temple wall, she finds something wrong with it — a border of eighteen chiselled marks, cut with a modern tool by an ancient hand.
She has seen one of those marks before. In a police photograph. Beside a body.
Three killings, thirty-five months, scattered across the Cauvery Delta — a watchman, a garland-maker, a photographer who saw too many empty pedestals where bronze gods used to stand. Each death marked with a single glyph. Each glyph carved into the same stone.
It isn’t a signature. It’s an index — a ledger in granite, tallying which sanctums have been emptied and which counterfeit gods now sit in their place.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length9 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 6, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Acknowledgments
3Chapter 1: “The Slab in Store-Room Nine”
4Chapter 2: “Eighteen Marks”
5Chapter 3: “The Photograph in the Archive”
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6Chapter 4: “Cold Cases, Warm Stone”
7Chapter 5: “Thirumanur Threshold”
8Chapter 6: “The Garland-Maker’s Door”
9Chapter 7: “Four People Knew”
10Chapter 8: “The Ashtadhatu Tally”
11Chapter 9: “Perumkallur”
12Chapter 10: “The Bronze That Weighed Wrong”
13Chapter 11: “The Cutter”
14Chapter 12: “Leak”
15Chapter 13: “Three Dots”
16Chapter 14: “Ashvattha”
17Chapter 15: “What the Mentor Signed”
18Chapter 16: “Nageswaran North Street”
19Chapter 17: “Three Hundred and Fifty Kilometres”
20Chapter 18: “Bay Twelve”
21Chapter 19: “The Sixth Triplet”
22Chapter 20: “Plan B”
23Chapter 21: “The Grandson’s Choice”
24Chapter 22: “Masi Night”
25Chapter 23: “The Kollidam Bund”
26Chapter 24: “The Last Mark”
27Character Guide
28References & Bibliography
