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The Iron Alibi and Other Stories 2026: Eleven Tales of Suspense from the Gym Floor

The Iron Alibi and Other Stories 2026: Eleven Tales of Suspense from the Gym Floor

Palwe, Manoj

Paperback

Series: Series 9 - Clean Sport, Dirty Games: The Sealed System Suspense Thrillers, Book 14

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798180660183
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
About this book:

The Iron Alibi and Other Stories: Eleven Tales of Suspense from the Gym Floor is a 31,000-word collection of eleven interlocking suspense stories written in the tradition of great thrillers. Every story is set inside the world of luxury gyms - Manhattan penthouses, Monte Carlo cathedrals of glass and marble, Bombay tower-top studios over Marine Drive, Gurgaon biometric-locked private suites, Bangalore CrossFit boxes, Kerala cliffside retreats, and a Geneva private bank with a hidden trainer's gym.

The stories follow ambitious women with dark intentions - a widow who murders her husband and her lover in the same morning, a sixty-three-year-old Russian who has been quietly recording her clients for twenty years, a forensic accountant whose sister came back from the dead, a Marwari widow who learns to kill from a former Para commando, an IPS inspector who refuses to close a case, two heiress twins, a Kazakh chemical engineer, a Bangalore fintech founder, a Cambridge-trained pharmacologist running an Ayurvedic retreat, and a Swiss private banker bent into the network against his will.

What begins as eleven independent stories slowly reveals itself as a single connected world. Sentinel Advisory threads through five of them. Anya Volkov's nineteen-year-old network of women operatives - trainers, masseuses, sommeliers, dancers - runs from Monte Carlo through Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kerala, Geneva, and Manhattan. Characters introduced casually in early stories return as principals in later ones. Threads planted in story three pay off in story eleven.

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