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

· Nov 11, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: When a Delhi tabloid editor is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. Who would want to kill him?

Samyukta Bhowmick

· Nov 05, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Crime fiction: Retired cricket umpire Russi Batliwala investigates a high-profile murder

Madhav Nayak

· Sep 06, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A cardsharp turned conman finds that Mumbai’s underworld is no place for a failed criminal

Vish Dhamija

· Jul 26, 2024 · 01:30 pm

For children: Young detectives investigate why a dead woman has been found in a swimming pool

Shabnam Minwalla

· Jun 07, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Thriller: When a photographer witnesses a murder, he turns to a detective to confess his own crimes

Bhaskar Chattopadhyay

· May 24, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: The body of a young woman, her insides split open, is found inside a farmhouse near Delhi

Anjali Deshpande

· Apr 16, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The Tattoo Murder’ injects local aesthetics into a post-World War II Japanese crime novel

Saptak Choudhury

· Mar 23, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The Kidnapping of Mark Twain’: The turn of the century and a brave new Bombay

Saloni Sharma

· Feb 25, 2024 · 08:30 am

Based on a true story: A 1930s murder in Calcutta that sent shockwaves across the British empire

Dan Morrison

· Jan 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Five under-appreciated crime novels that deserve your attention

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· Jan 06, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Two brothers rob Indian banks of US $ 700 million, setting off a dangerous chain of events

Ajit Menon Anil Verma

· Dec 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Detective fiction: An intense exploration of the squalor and vice that fester in shadowy city lanes

Anita Nair

· Dec 04, 2023 · 05:30 pm

For whom the bell tolls: tales of murder and madness on the fictional Gokumon Island

Saptak Choudhury

· Nov 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm

In Anuja Chauhan’s new novel, a jeweller is found dead. Divine curse or murder by a mortal?

Anuja Chauhan

· Nov 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Holly’: Stephen King’s timely work of crime fiction about not judging a book by its cover

Andrew Dix, The Conversation

· Oct 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Crime fiction: Three novels where we don’t see the solutions because of our blind spots

Saptak Choudhury

· Aug 19, 2023 · 03:30 pm

Fiction: A woman is murdered in a quiet hill town. The protagonist thinks she is the killer

Gayatri

· Jul 12, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Crime fiction: A detective’s holiday is cut short when strange bloody handprints appear on the walls

RV Raman

· May 31, 2023 · 05:30 pm