The Corner Room Series
A crime thriller series set in Bangalore, where every case begins with a death that doesn't add up and leads to secrets people will do anything to keep buried.
Tense police work collides with family loyalty, ambition, betrayal, and the hidden lives behind respectable faces.
Book 2: The Doctor in the Corner Clinic
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The Girl in the Corner Room
A Murder Mystery
A young woman is found dead in a quiet corner room. What appears to be a straightforward case slowly reveals layers of silence, misdirection, and hidden relationships. As the investigation progresses, every detail matters—and every assumption is questioned. This is a grounded murder mystery focused on motive, psychology, and what people choose not to say.
The Doctor in the Corner Clinic
The Room Was Never the Mystery
Dr. Ashok Kulkarni is found dead inside his locked clinic. Gun in hand. Door bolted from the inside. An open-and-shut suicide, the police say.
Inspector Praveen Kumar is not convinced.
Ashok was a celebrated cardiologist, a Padma Shri recipient, and one of Bangalore's most trusted doctors. But as Praveen retraces the final months of his life, he uncovers a burned letter, a growing fear, and a secret powerful enough to destroy more than one life.
What begins as a locked-room death soon turns into something far more dangerous: a search through buried relationships, quiet betrayals, and truths hidden behind respectability. As the case deepens, Praveen finds himself drawn into a mystery where every answer raises a darker question, and where the cost of the truth may reach far beyond the dead.
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Book 3 — Coming Soon
A series of brutal deaths begins across Bangalore, pulling Inspector Praveen into a case unlike any he has faced before.
The victims appear unrelated at first, businessmen, contractors, real estate men, all found with savage wounds that suggest an animal attack. But the pattern is too precise. The targets are too specific. And whatever is moving through the city is not killing at random.
As fear spreads, rumours take over. The media turns the deaths into spectacle, while Praveen follows the quieter evidence: old land records, hidden partnerships, a burned home, and a family whose deaths were once dismissed as an accident.
At the center of it all is Bhairava — a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog shaped by loss, memory, and instinct.
To the city, it is a monster.
To Praveen, it becomes something harder to name.
As the investigation closes in on the last surviving man, Praveen is forced to confront the most difficult question of his career:
When the law fails, what does justice become?
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Reading Order
While each book can be read as a standalone mystery, reading them in order will give you the full experience of the series progression.
The Girl in the Corner Room
A Murder Mystery
The Doctor in the Corner Clinic
The Room Was Never the Mystery
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