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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 Sidney Sheldon. 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.The collection delivers Sheldon's trademark machinery: glamorous international settings, time-stamped tension, italicised internal monologue in Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and Marathi, sudden midpoint reversals where the hunter becomes the hunted, mothers' wisdom whispered across generations, and that distinctive blend of moral ambiguity and propulsive readability that made Master of the Game and If Tomorrow Comes impossible to put down. Each story stands alone. Read in order, they tell something larger.Wie gefällt Ihnen unser Shop?
