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The Sugarcane Line: A Police Procedural Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 16 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the sugarcane belt of a forgotten district, a woman is found dead in a cane field - strangled with her own saree, a single bangle missing from her wrist. Sub-Inspector Raghav Chaudhary, an ordinary policeman with no genius for deduction and no taste for the spotlight, is the one who has to make sense of it.
He doesn't. Not for a long time.
A second body. A third. The case grows into a serial investigation that outpaces every resource the local police can throw at it - cameras, task forces, a forensic psychologist, a public reward. Raghav makes real mistakes along the way: an innocent man wrongly detained, a desperate decision made under pressure that he has to live with. What finally breaks the case isn't a flash of brilliance. It's patience - tea-stall conversations, village trust built one visit at a time, and the refusal to stop showing up even when nothing is working.
The Sugarcane Line is a grounded, procedural crime novel about what real investigations are actually made of: not genius, but persistence; not certainty, but the willingness to be wrong and keep going anyway.
For readers who want their crime fiction to feel like it could have actually happened.
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