crime fiction
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Crime fiction: An archaeologist’s discovery of a mummy collides with her search for a missing niece
Maha Khan Phillips
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Crime fiction: The line between culinary artistry and sinister manipulation blurs at this restaurant
Mohammad Nazim Uddin V Ramaswamy
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‘Gunboy’: A Bombay underworld novel that falls a little short of the depth it demands
Atharva Pandit
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‘The Beast Within’: A startlingly true-to-life Delhi Police drama
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction: Passion turns to peril when an untimely death threatens to implicate a policeman in murder
Amit Lodha
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Fiction: Two bodies wash ashore. Soon, a murder case considered solved years ago is open again
Kishore Ram
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‘A treasure hunt about the past’: Writer Johana Gustawsson on what makes crime fiction so popular
Diya Isha
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Crime fiction: Inspector Kumar knows it is not an accident when a young woman falls to her death
Rudraneil Sengupta
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Fiction: Layla’s life in a small liberal arts college is about to change when she discovers a body
Faiqa Mansab
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Fiction: Madhu is brutally murdered in his home on a regular evening, shattering the peace of a city
Vasundhara
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Murder mystery: Lakshmi Krishnamurthi is missing, and so is a Rs-5-crore painting from her home
Feisal Alkazi
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‘A Fatal Distraction’: This Delhi society murder mystery is racy and engaging despite a few snags
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: Two journalists dive into the murky waters of a young woman’s murder case in Delhi
Balraj Juttla
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Murder mystery: An elderly couple investigates the suspicious death of a British journalist in Goa
Udayan Mukherjee
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Fiction: A political rally ends in tragedy when detective Persis Wadia kills a lone gunman
Vaseem Khan
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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