THE IMPERFECT LIE

He listened to a stranger confess to murder. He believed every word. That was the plan.

Inspector Vikram Malhotra has solved every crime that ever crossed his desk. Today, one walks in on its own.

A stranger enters a near-empty Delhi police station carrying a revolver and a confession: he murdered a woman in a rose garden, and he wants to tell Vikram everything. Hour by hour, the story unfolds — a lost daughter, a vanished mother, a killer who is closer than Vikram thinks. It is too detailed to be madness. Too precise to be a lie.

By the time the sun sets, Vikram will have chased a man through the city, cornered him in a dark alley, and done something he can never undo.

He believed every word.

That was the plan.

THE IMPERFECT LIE is a debut psychological thriller about marriage, deception, and the price of a perfect lie — a story built to be read twice.

For readers of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, and Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris.