Crime fiction
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For children: Young detectives investigate why a dead woman has been found in a swimming pool
Shabnam Minwalla
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Thriller: When a photographer witnesses a murder, he turns to a detective to confess his own crimes
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
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Fiction: The body of a young woman, her insides split open, is found inside a farmhouse near Delhi
Anjali Deshpande
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‘The Tattoo Murder’ injects local aesthetics into a post-World War II Japanese crime novel
Saptak Choudhury
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‘The Kidnapping of Mark Twain’: The turn of the century and a brave new Bombay
Saloni Sharma
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Based on a true story: A 1930s murder in Calcutta that sent shockwaves across the British empire
Dan Morrison
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Five under-appreciated crime novels that deserve your attention
Stewart King, The Conversation Barbara Pezzotti, The Conversation
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Fiction: Two brothers rob Indian banks of US $ 700 million, setting off a dangerous chain of events
Ajit Menon Anil Verma
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Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes
Anita Nair
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For whom the bell tolls: tales of murder and madness on the fictional Gokumon Island
Saptak Choudhury
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In Anuja Chauhan’s new novel, a jeweller is found dead. Divine curse or murder by a mortal?
Anuja Chauhan
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‘Holly’: Stephen King’s timely work of crime fiction about not judging a book by its cover
Andrew Dix, The Conversation
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Crime fiction: Three novels where we don’t see the solutions because of our blind spots
Saptak Choudhury
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Fiction: A woman is murdered in a quiet hill town. The protagonist thinks she is the killer
Gayatri
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Crime fiction: A detective’s holiday is cut short when strange bloody handprints appear on the walls
RV Raman
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A new book presents short stories of cyber crime based on true events
Ashok Kumar OP Manocha
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Fiction: Anant Kapoor is dead. The police suspect his wife and two others. Who killed Anant? Why?
Vikrant Khanna
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Something sinister is afoot. Will detective Antonia Scott leave retirement to solve the crimes?
Juan Gómez-Jurado
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Detective Arjun Arora is back – this time the answer to a mysterious death might lie in China
Ankush Saikia
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‘Black River’: A genre-defying novel covertly raises questions of sociological, ecological decay
Saloni Sharma