I was getting irritated, feeling lost too. Lost because we had made no headway in this headless case, literally. I was also apprehensive of the local media and my seniors losing their patience. Having found a decapitated dead body on the national highway, hands and feet tied, in a gunny bag, had been a gruesome sight to say the least. No clue for forty-eight hours and here the local inspector seemed more worried about my stay and food arrangements than in solving the case. It was the last straw."

Thus, begins a chapter in Inspector Chougle (Vishwakarma Publications), a fictionalised version of the cases handled by Dr Meeran Chadha Borwankar, retired IPS officer who served as the Joint Commissioner (crime) in Mumbai, Commissioner of Police in Pune and Chief of Maharashtra Prisons Department. The story is written in the first person, representing Borwankar, and has a prime character after whom the book is named. The 62-year-old 1981 batch IPS officer says, all the chapters in the book, each a case of its own, are based on the cases she encountered while in the force.