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mystery fiction

  • Murder mystery: Lakshmi Krishnamurthi is missing, and so is a Rs-5-crore painting from her home

    Murder mystery: Lakshmi Krishnamurthi is missing, and so is a Rs-5-crore painting from her home

    Feisal Alkazi
    · Feb 28, 2025 · 05:30 pm
  • Fiction: When a Delhi tabloid editor is poisoned, everyone is puzzled. Who would want to kill him?

    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
  • Mystery fiction: A posh Himalayan spa for the global elite has a murderer let loose

    Mystery fiction: A posh Himalayan spa for the global elite has a murderer let loose

    Ram Murali
    · Jul 11, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Mystery: Can Kaveri find the magician who disappeared after being trapped in an iron cage of snakes?

    Mystery: Can Kaveri find the magician who disappeared after being trapped in an iron cage of snakes?

    Harini Nagendra
    · Jun 26, 2024 · 05:30 pm
  • Sudeep Nagarkar’s romantic thriller: Nandini has just awoken from a coma. Was it just an accident?

    Sudeep Nagarkar’s romantic thriller: Nandini has just awoken from a coma. Was it just an accident?

    Sudeep Nagarkar
    · Sep 13, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • Fiction: Can solicitor Perveen Mistry prove an employee innocent without endangering her own family?

    Fiction: Can solicitor Perveen Mistry prove an employee innocent without endangering her own family?

    Sujata Massey
    · Jun 20, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • In this new novel, a group of eccentrics gets together to solve the mysterious death of a neighbour

    In this new novel, a group of eccentrics gets together to solve the mysterious death of a neighbour

    Pashupati Chatterji
    · Sep 06, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • Whodunnit? A protesting student is murdered during the Prince of Wales’s Bombay visit in 1921

    Whodunnit? A protesting student is murdered during the Prince of Wales’s Bombay visit in 1921

    Sujata Massey
    · Jul 06, 2021 · 05:30 pm
  • The residents of an old age home in Goa band together to solve a mysterious death in this novel

    The residents of an old age home in Goa band together to solve a mysterious death in this novel

    Bulbul Sharma
    · May 11, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator? Paula (‘Girl on the Train’) Hawkins’s new thriller has ten

    You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator? Paula (‘Girl on the Train’) Hawkins’s new thriller has ten

    Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
    · May 16, 2017 · 08:30 am