The Lamp That Stayed Dark · Pulse Beat

A harbour town, a lighthouse dark for the first time in sixty-one years, and a ledger with one page torn out. A mystery in thirty chapters. A work of fiction.

For sixty-one years the lamp at Pannavur harbour never went out. Then one night in November it did, and Nirmala, who had come home only to sell her late father's boat shed, found herself reading the one book the town had always refused to open. A mystery in thirty chapters. This is a work of fiction: its people, places and boats are invented.