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A Rising Man

7 July, 2016

This prize-winning debut takes us back to 1919 Calcutta, where Sam Wyndham, formerly of the British Army and of Scotland Yard, has arrived to start a new life in the colonial police force. He’s barely had time to wipe the sweat from his brow before a…

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A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

By crimefictionlover

12 June, 2016

Calcutta, 1919, and the city is full of rising men. There are the colonials making fortunes in commodities like rubber and jute, or grafting in the administration in ways they never could back in the UK. There are cloth merchants and bankers. There are the…

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A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

29 May, 2016

It is the summer of 1923, and Madras is so hot that even the locals are finding it hard going. Many of the British civil servants, who still run India, are suffering torments inside their formal suits and starched collars. One employee of the Raj,…

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The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan

By Vicki Weisfeld

12 March, 2016

Though debut crime fiction author Vaseem Khan was born in London, his experience working in the Indian subcontinent comes through clearly in his convincing portrayal of the people, culture, and politics of the complicated city of Mumbai. He’s managed to marry that deep knowledge with…

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NTN: Abir Mukherjee interviewed

By crimefictionlover

11 November, 2015

Last February, we reported on how the previously unpublished writer Abir Mukherjee had won a crime writing competition run by The Daily Telegraph and Harvill Secker. His book, A Rising Man, has been completed and Harvill Secker will be publishing it in May next year. Becoming a crime…

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Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai

By MarinaSofia

8 June, 2015

We came across Kishwar Desai on a panel at the Quais du Polar Festival in Lyon, talking about the possible reasons for the lack of a crime writing tradition in India. Her Simran Singh series of novels has been well received in the English-speaking world and has been…

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The Pallampur Predicament by Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

1 January, 2015

Christian Le Fanu is a Superintendent with the Madras Police. Unlike many other junior army officers, he survived World War I, and in particular the savage battle against the Turks at Shaiba in 1915. There, Le Fanu commanded Indian soldiers and was inspired by their…

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Interview: Brian Stoddart

By DavidPrestidge

23 December, 2014

Professor Brian Stoddart is a distinguished Australian academic who has been Vice Chancellor of Latrobe University, Victoria, and is a widely respected non-fiction author. He’s especially interested in the role of sport – and, in particular, cricket – in Australian culture. Now, he has turned…

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A Rising Man

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

A Straits Settlement by Brian Stoddart

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan

NTN: Abir Mukherjee interviewed

Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai

The Pallampur Predicament by Brian Stoddart

Interview: Brian Stoddart

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