Crime fiction
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Agatha Christie: What made the world’s bestselling author successful? Here’s a clue in plain sight
Gill Plain, The Conversation
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Thriller: A novel is transformed into a deadly mind game that pushes logic and imagination
Manjiri Prabhu
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Fiction: A peek into the minds of commuters from Nalanda Housing Society held at gunpoint in a bus
Kalpish Ratna
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‘The Fox Valley Murders’: A hit combination of nostalgia and evocative descriptions of locales
Saptak Choudhury
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Fiction: Eleven years later, a daughter is determined to find out exactly what killed her father
Shabnam Minwalla
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‘The Meiji Guillotine’: An excellent historical crime narrative that blends tradition and modernity
Saptak Choudhury
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Crime fiction: Someone has punished Andy for his dark deeds. But who? Could it be his wife Madhvi?
Shubhra Krishan
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Sunday book pick: Seven die in quest for a ‘perfect woman’ in crime novel ‘The Tokyo Zodiac Murders’
Sayari Debnath
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Crime fiction: A documentary begins asking questions that four men thought had been buried forever
Arnab Ray
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Crime fiction: Uma suspects she’s surrounded by evil when she and her husband move to a sleepy town
Roopa Unnikrishnan
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‘The Samurai and the Prisoner’: This Japanese crime novel recreates the 1578 Itami Castle siege
Saptak Choudhury
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Crime fiction: The bride-to-be, a fresh-off-the-boat English memsahib, disappears before the wedding
Arjun Raj Gaind
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‘The Decagon House Murders’: A watershed moment for a new, emerging style of mystery fiction
Saptak Choudhury
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Fiction: To avoid suspicion, Lizzie has to solve the mystery of a man’s murder after he visits her
Georgina Clarke
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‘The Hachette Book of Indian Crime Fiction’: A homage to tradition and a sharp turn away from it
Amritesh Mukherjee
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Fiction: The discovery of a skeleton from a house is followed by a high-profile murder-suicide case
Salil Desai
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Young adult fiction: A boy goes missing at Valorhouse International, an elite boarding school
Bishhal Paull
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From the anthology: A journalist at a workshop for new crime-fiction writers is accused of murder
Manjula Padmanabhan
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‘The Menon Investigation’: In Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s novel, there is no escape from caste
Sayari Debnath
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A police officer’s murder is reinvestigated in Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari’s new novel
Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari