{"product_id":"the-geometry-of-guilt-vikram-seth-9798254682233","title":"The Geometry of Guilt: A Psychological Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome buildings hold more than weight.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructural engineer Marcus Vane finds the error on a Tuesday. One decimal place. A shear connection rated at a tenth of the load it needs to carry, in the east wing of a seventy-two-story building that people will eventually stand inside of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has eleven days before the steel is cut. He says nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive years later, the east wing of the Aerie collapses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Geometry of Guilt follows Sarah Vane... archivist, structural investigator, Marcus's sister... as she reconstructs not just what failed in the building, but what failed in the man she thought she knew completely. Working from her brother's field notebooks, a forty-two-page supplementary finding buried in a city archive, and the testimony of people who were present when the calculation was signed off, Sarah begins to understand that the error was not the only thing that was known and not reported.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomeone else knew. And unlike Marcus, they made a choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrecise, atmospheric, and morally relentless, The Geometry of Guilt is a psychological thriller about institutional silence, the architecture of professional loyalty, and what it means to carry a decision inside you until it becomes load-bearing. Set against the backdrop of a building site where every number has consequences, it asks the question that haunts every cover-up: at what point does silence become its own kind of act?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers of\u003c\/i\u003e Slow Horses, \u003ci\u003eThe Firm, \u003c\/i\u003e The Thursday Murder Club, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e The Silent Patient.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a work of fiction. All characters, organisations, and events are entirely imaginary. Any resemblance to real persons or actual events is coincidental.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vikram Seth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254682233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d","brand":"Vikram Seth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874619896063,"sku":"9798254682233","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-geometry-of-guilt-vikram-seth-9798254682233","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}