The Palace of Borrowed Voices: An Ira Devkar Mystery

The walls of Navakonda Palace were designed to carry voices. During a storm-bound heritage preview, they seem to deliver three private messages from Arvind Varma-then he is found dead inside the genuinely locked Surmandal music room.Ira Devkar, a specialist in historic buildings and their acoustics, is drawn into an investigation in which every suspect has lied and the palace itself appears to contradict the evidence. Working with DSP Farah Naik, Ira must separate live speech from borrowed sound, old architecture from modern manipulation, and institutional loyalty from murder.The Palace of Borrowed Voices is an atmospheric fair-play locked-room mystery set in a monsoon-soaked Indian heritage palace. The Navakonda case is fully resolved, while a restrained final hook opens the next Ira Devkar mystery.