Crime fiction
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Is there space on serious Indian bookshelves for the silliness of a racy crime novel?
Samyukta Bhowmick
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Fiction: Rajapur’s quaint idyll is disturbed when a young widow is discovered bludgeoned to death
Shampa Roy
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Fiction: When a Delhi tabloid editor is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. Who would want to kill him?
Samyukta Bhowmick
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Crime fiction: Retired cricket umpire Russi Batliwala investigates a high-profile murder
Madhav Nayak
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Fiction: A cardsharp turned conman finds that Mumbai’s underworld is no place for a failed criminal
Vish Dhamija
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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