crime fiction
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‘Age of Vice’: Nothing good happens in this novel of power and corruption, and that’s a good thing
Sahana Hegde
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Not all Japanese crime fiction is superb, as Seishi Yokomizo’s ‘The Village of Eight Graves’ shows
Saptak Choudhury
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Nilanjana Roy’s new novel is a noir mystery highlighting community divide and violence against women
Nilanjana S Roy
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What is the shin honkaku sub-genre of mystery? How did Japanese writer Soji Shimada make it popular?
Saptak Choudhury
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‘Manjhi’s Mayhem’: A tightly-spun racy crime novel that has you rooting for a murderous anti-hero
Sayari Debnath
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How a Japanese island mystery novel replicated the Ellery Queen and Sherlock Holmes brand of mystery
Saptak Choudhury
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Tanuj Solanki’s latest novel is a noir crime thriller – with broken noses, bloody heads, and murder
Tanuj Solanki
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How Keikichi Ōsaka blended crime with philosophical meditations on the puzzling nature of existence
Saptak Choudhury
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A series of horrific crimes exposes the dark underbelly of Kolkata in a new crime novel
Suhit Sen
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‘The Red Locked Room’: How Tetsuya Ayukawa unlocks locked room mysteries
Saptak Choudhury
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Can a detective novel study the evolution of a city through its history of crime and detection?
Saptak Choudhury
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This whodunit unearths the secrets and lies lurking beneath one of Mumbai’s poshest addresses
Meeti Shroff-Shah
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‘The Bangalore Detective Club’: Where the mystery does not last longer than a hookup
Sushmita Sundaram
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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