Crime fiction
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Upamanyu Chatterjee asks in his new novel what villainy is, and offers uncomfortable answers
Saloni Sharma
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This novel tells the story of an Englishman who took over an island near Bombay in August 1947
Godfrey Joseph Pereira
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This novel in the guise of a thriller travels through the darkest roads of marriage and abuse
Meghna Pant
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Five Victorian detective stories to read that are not Sherlock Holmes mysteries
Clare Clarke, The Conversation
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‘Farside’: A sister finds her brother dead. Then the possibility of a murder unravels
Jaishankar Krishnamurthy Krishna Udayasankar
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How TV scriptwriter Sanjeev Paliwal has revived Hindi crime fiction with ‘Naina’ and ‘Pishach’
Maneesha Taneja
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Five of the best new crime novels to read this autumn (and one golden oldie)
Alec Charles, The Conversation
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Crime and the single, independent woman: This novel asks uncomfortable questions
Madhumita Bhattacharyya
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How the decades-old Japanese honkaku murder mysteries are making a comeback in English translation
Arunima Mazumdar
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A teenage detective (and friends) investigate a murder in an apartment block during a lockdown
Shabnam Minwalla
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Anuja Chauhan’s new novel may be a whodunnit, but its people are its pleasure, as usual
Trisha Gupta
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Investigator turns down case and blank cheque. But it’s only the beginning in this crime novel
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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In this detective novel, the investigator suspects herself of being the murderer
Kalpana Swaminathan
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Chetan Bhagat’s new novel makes love a red herring in a case of murder (and bromance)
Chetan Bhagat
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'In African crime fiction the heroes and villains often exchange roles or are complicit in some way’
Aretha Phiri, The Conversation Sam Naidu, The Conversation
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The old-fashioned whodunit makes a comeback in this novel set in the Shimla of the British Raj
Bulbul Sharma
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In this noir novella, a schoolteacher sucked into a maze of deceit to save her dying husband
Piyush Jha
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Crime thriller: Dead women with their hearts removed are being found. Is the Vasant Sena involved?
Uttaran Das Gupta
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There’s something about Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020): Remembering the bestselling suspense writer
Susan Haris
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Why single, childless, contended, middle-aged women make excellent protagonists
Emily Bernhard Jackson, The Conversation