An ex-military officer with a haunted past. A Senator on the way to the White House with secrets to kill for. A mourning mother. A lonely wife. The debut novel, The Caretaker penned by A.X. Ahmad has all the right elements and yet, apropos of the same, the book only ends being an average thriller…
Koh-I-Noor has enraptured the imagination of the world since centuries, so much so, that for some, it has become the symbol of sovereignty, and for others, the blatant example of colonial greed and rapacity unleashed on the colonies by the colonial masters. Seeped in part-myth and part-history, the history of the diamond is replete with…
Near the end, one of the characters in Siddhartha Deb’s Surface says, ‘To conceal surfaces under other surfaces is necessary’ and this is what the entire narrative is all about. Cloaked under layers and layers, this is the ultimate revelation that is dawned upon the reader – ‘projecting attractive images that concealed what lay behind’.…
Narrated in the first – person voice, Sandhya Menon’s funny and quirky debut, When Dimple Met Rishi tells a story of two Indian-American teenagers, who have nothing in common, except their shared pedigree. But what happens, when their parents secretly set these opposites to get “arranged” for marriage. Dimple Shah, a plain looking girl who…
Winner of the Bloody Scotland Crime Novel of the Year, Black Widow narrates a tale of successful and yet ruthless woman-surgeon who ends up loving and marrying the most unlikely guy. But her whirlwind romance meets a tragic end when her husband dies in an accident and she is charged with his murder. This is…
Firmly rooted in the back lanes of the Lutyens’ Delhi, the concluding installment in the Raisina Series, The War Ministry gives the reader a bird’s eye view of the maneuvering, negotiation, coaxing, plotting that goes behind the scenes to secure power and dominance in the political space. More of a political drama than a thriller,…
A runaway Sikh girl. A Muslim ex-con not looking for any trouble. Robbery. Drugs. Kidnapping. Murder. Revenge. Winner of the CWA Debut Dagger, Amer Anwar’s debut novel, Brothers in Blood has all the elements of a great thriller and Anwar gets it right. Just released from prison after a stint of five years for manslaughter,…
Set in the reign of one of the mightiest kings of the time, Empire brings alive the glorious Chola dynasty and culture in all its glory and might during Rajendra Chola’s reign. Dominantly, a patriarchal society, the book brings a fresh perspective by narrating the story of the warrior who is not only female but…
“Even if you catch me, there’s hundreds of thousands just like me all over the world, cruising the web, looking for prey…You’ll never feel safe again.” One of the most chilling thrillers to be published in the recent times, The Intrusions gives a sneak peek into what technology can do, how a crime can be…
Evelyn Beatrice Hall once said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” In spite of stepping into the twenty-first century with aplomb, we as a human race have not progressed to a point where all written word is cherished and published. Censorship is very…
