Oru Kanyakayude Suvishesham, a psychological suspense thriller novel, set against the backdrop of the southern Indian state of Kerala, tells the story of Akira Stephen, an intelligent young woman and the only child of a Christian, top-ranking bureaucrat father and an erudite Brahmin mother. Akira’s furtive investigation into the bizarre death of a co-nun perhaps constitutes the most thrilling part of the story. Her brave, relentless and rigorous investigative endeavours, while unravelling the mystery behind the suicide, uncovers some shockingly ugly hidden truths of the higher ecclesiastical order. Finely layered, the novel also has a delightful, tender, heart-touching love story running parallel to the main events of the story.