About the Book: One Million Footsteps
Jeyamohans intriguing foray into detective fiction introduces Ousepachan, a
maverick and jaded ex-police officer. Narrating his experiences with razor-sharp
wit and a fondness for indecent jokes, Ousepachan turns his gaze inwards,
dwelling less on the crime than on the minds that commit it. His investigations
move through generational curses, torrid affairs, and moral decay, tracing each
transgression back to a familiar set of human drives love, desire, honour, ego
and the hunger for power. Rooted in the cultural worlds of Tamil Nadu and
Kerala, this luminous translation of a legendary Tamil writers work approaches
crime as a means of understanding society itself.