Crime fiction often works best when it feels believable. That is exactly where Rakesh Kumar Singh brings something different to the table.
After spending decades inside security institutions and administrative systems, Singh has developed a close understanding of power, pressure, ambition, and human behaviour. Those experiences now shape his fiction writing.
His novel Affairs of Deception moves through a world filled with political influence, betrayal, hidden motives, and murder investigations.
The story revolves around complicated relationships, power struggles, and suspicion. But beneath the thriller format, the novel also examines how greed, desire, and ambition affect people inside influential systems.
What separates Singh’s writing from many fictional thrillers is the realism in the atmosphere and characters. His long career in uniform gives him insight into how institutions function, how investigations move, and how pressure changes decision-making.
Rather than depending only on dramatic twists, Singh focuses strongly on psychology and interpersonal tension. His characters often carry emotional flaws, hidden fears, and conflicting motivations.
Readers also get a sense that the writer understands the balance between authority and vulnerability. That realism gives the story a grounded tone.
Over the years, Singh has written both fiction and non-fiction, but with this novel, he shows another side of his storytelling ability — one that blends suspense with social observation and human complexity.
