Of Crimes and Conceits

The Return of the Spy

Of ominous countryside and Machiavellian mandarins

Paths of the Psychopath

Three thrillers reveal the emotional cost of coping with killers

Remade in Urdu

When thrillers are adapted with local flavour

The Pleasure Principle

Dismantling the artificial boundaries between high and low fiction

Agatha Christie: Murder She Wrote

Women writers reign over the golden age of crime fiction

Jack the Ripper. Indian

Was he Prince Albert Victor who was sent on a tour of the Raj after being implicated in the Cleveland Street scandal of 1889?

True Detectives

The Landscape of the Novel

When nature rises to the level of a protagonist

Not Guilty

A memoir by a fugitive who has committed no crime