crime fiction
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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
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Meet DCP Rita Ferreira, the fictional detective who stars amongst Mumbai’s top policemen
Vish Dhamija
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Why is a former Mumbai police hero holed up in the Himalayas? Meet an all new fictional detective
Udayan Mukherjee
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Beneath the veneer of a crime novel, ‘You Beneath Your Skin’ is a study of problematic relationships
Rituparna Roy
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‘Ginny Kalra, I loved you. Did I kill you?’ An air-hostess is found dead. Her neighbour is suspected
Pratyaksha
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How the ‘good guy with a gun’ from crime novels has become a deadly fantasy in the US
Susanna Lee, The Conversation
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Perveen Mistry returns: A new novel takes the 1920s crime-solving lawyer to the kingdom of Satapur
Sujata Massey
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In this novel, something big enough to bite a human head off at one go is on the loose in Mumbai
Krishna Udaysankar