The Iron Alibi and Other Stories 2026

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.