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NEW RELEASE 21 September 2026

The Girl in the Trunk

By Arindam Seal

An ACP Sanyukta Singh Novel

A woman vanishes after midnight. A black Fortuner carries the first lie. Everyone close to her has a version of the truth.

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The Girl in the Trunk

By Arindam Seal

An ACP Sanyukta Singh Novel

A woman vanishes after midnight. A black Fortuner carries the first lie. Everyone close to her has a version of the truth.

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Sakshi Mehra

Sakshi Mehra writes contemporary crime and romantic suspense featuring complicated women, dangerous choices, sharp humour, messy relationships, and mysteries that rarely behave themselves. She is particularly interested in characters who refuse to fit neatly into the roles expected of them, whether they…

Sakshi Mehra writes contemporary crime and romantic suspense featuring complicated women, dangerous choices, sharp humour, messy relationships, and mysteries that rarely behave themselves. She…

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Sadhana Deb is a pen name chosen in honour of the author’s mother, whose name it carries. Under this name, Sadhana Deb writes mythological fiction centred on women whose lives have often been remembered through the ambitions, judgments and legends of others.…

Sadhana Deb is a pen name chosen in honour of the author’s mother, whose name it carries. Under this name, Sadhana Deb writes mythological…

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Tanu Halder

Tanu Halder is an Indian author of horror, supernatural suspense and dark psychological fiction. Her stories are drawn towards ordinary places that acquire something wrong at their edges: familiar roads, closed rooms, isolated buildings and journeys that become more dangerous the farther…

Tanu Halder is an Indian author of horror, supernatural suspense and dark psychological fiction. Her stories are drawn towards ordinary places that acquire something…

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Iron Gate Publishing is an independent publishing house based in Assam, India, building a growing catalogue of original fiction for readers in India and beyond. Our list spans crime, thrillers, romance, espionage, horror, mystery and contemporary fiction, published across print and digital formats. We look for distinctive voices, strong narrative identity and commercial readability, then bring editorial judgement, positioning, design and production together around the individual book. The aim is simple: publish stories with substance, work with authors who have vision, and build a catalogue whose value does not disappear when release week is over.

Iron Gate Publishing is an independent publishing house based in Assam, India, building a growing catalogue of original fiction across crime, thrillers, romance, espionage, horror, mystery and contemporary fiction. We look for distinctive voices, strong narrative identity and commercial readability, bringing editorial judgement, positioning, design and production together around each book. Our aim is simple: publish stories with substance and lasting value.

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