The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra

June 12, 2022

Harini Nagendra takes readers to Bangalore, India in 1921 in her debut mystery, The Bangalore Detectives Club. It’s an excellent traditional mystery that introduces us to a country twenty-five years before its independence, a country where class structure is...

A Dire Isle by RV Raman

March 28, 2022

Well, RV Raman’s second Harith Athreya mystery came as a surprise. While A Will to Kill was definitely in the Agatha Christie style, A Dire Isle was a police procedural with the expected wrap-up scene. It just shows how creative Raman is, that he takes his...

A Will to Kill by RV Raman

January 25, 2021

I feel as if I owe RV Raman an apology. If I had read A Will to Kill last year when I actually received it, it probably would have gone on my favorites list for 2020. This mystery, set in India, written by an Indian author, is the closest I’ve seen any author...

A Necessary Evil by Abir Mukherjee

April 04, 2018

Abir Mukherjee follows up the success of his debut novel, A Rising Man, with another richly detailed mystery set in 1920s India. And, for all of us who didn’t read the first mystery, there’s no problem in picking up the story of Captain Sam Wyndham and...