Indian crime fiction

The South Asian authors changing UK crime fiction

16 April, 2024

Today we’re joined by crime author Ajay Chowdhury – famous in the genre for his Kamil Rahman novels and famous in the tech world as the investor who took the tune identifying app Shazam to market. Here he shares his thoughts on how a new…

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Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

By Paul Burke

10 February, 2023

Epic is the only word for this ambitious literary thriller. As a gangster novel much of its appeal comes from its exotic location – New Delhi. Let’s face it, India is an underexplored territory for contemporary crime stories and this fact alone has generated a…

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Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

By Vicki Weisfeld

1 December, 2019

Written by Manu Joseph — In Mumbai, the collapse of an apartment building traps a lone survivor, a man filled with regrets, in Manu Joseph’s new political thriller, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous. Rescue workers can almost reach him but the space around him is…

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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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His Night Begins by N Murali

By nagaisayonara

29 June, 2015

Nothing hits the spot quite like a quick and brutal hardboiled novella, especially when it’s one that takes us on a journey to a new, dark and seedy city. Images of India we see in the West are dominated by the spiritual and the dirty…

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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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Mumbai Noir

By RoughJustice

16 April, 2012

Edited by Altaf Tyrewala — Mumbai, with a population of 20.5 million, is the most humanity-riddled city in India and the fourth most populous in the world. It is the commercial and entertainment capital of India and the nation’s economic powerhouse. One of the world’s…

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The South Asian authors changing UK crime fiction

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan

His Night Begins by N Murali

Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai

Mumbai Noir

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