An Indian crime fiction snapshot: a showcase of book covers. Hurda by Atharva Pandit, the Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction, edited by Tarun Saint, Samyukta Bhowmick's A Fatal Distraction, Chikkamma Tours (Pvt.) Ltd by Unmana, Black River by Nilanjana S Roy (me); Anita Nair's Cut Like Wound, Madhulika Liddle's Muzaffar Jang books, Raza Mir's Murder at the Mushaira, and Tanuj Solanki's Manjhi's Mayhem.
For crime and noir fiction readers — a grazing board.
A small selection: from hard-hitting, dirty realist rural crime (Hurda, by Atharva Pandit) to Mughal-era detectives (Madhulika Liddle), gritty big city crime (Anita Nair, me) to light-hearted romps (Unmana, Samyukta Bhowmick).
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