Sriram Tawker

I’m the author of How to Solve a Murder in 10 Days? and The Girl Who Lived, and the writer behind a Substack newsletter with 400 readers. I love writing thrillers set in India.

By day I’m a business analyst at a consulting firm. By night, I write. I’ve been doing both long enough to know that the two lives don’t cancel each other out — they feed each other in ways I’m still figuring out.

On my newsletter, every week you get two things. On Mondays, an honest reflection on what it actually feels like to write — the doubt, the dead ends, the moments that finally work. No advice listicles. Just the real experience of someone doing this alongside a full-time job, trying to figure it out in public.

On Fridays, the fiction itself. Right now that’s Temple of Gods — a serialized thriller following a British archaeologist who hides inside the thousand-year-old Brihadeeswarar Temple and finds a passage that drops him into 1010 AD Chola empire India.

If you write, the Monday posts will feel uncomfortably familiar. If you read, the Friday episodes are where to start.