South Asia

When Dr Anika's patient dies on the operating table and the media pick up on Anika's parasomnia, she has no choice but to escape to Sri Lanka. But returning to...

A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery. Introducing Perveen Mistry, a courageous young lawyer-turned-sleuth in a stunning murder mystery. Armed with a...

Hope You Are Satisfied welcomes you to Dubai as you've never seen it before... An astute satire in the vein of The White Lotus, with a touch of espionage. Malik's...

Detective Kamil and restaurant owner Anjoli go to Mumbai to solve the ritualistic killing of a British construction worker found with eighteen arrows embedded in his body. For readers of...

'Vaseem Khan writes with charm and wit, and an eye for detail that transports the reader entirely. I couldn't love this series more' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Historical fiction at its finest' MAIL ON...

Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder... Get ready for a claustrophobic, roller-coaster ride in 2025. Lucy Foley meets Succession in this tense and atmospheric...

‘Nair captures the seedy side of shiny new India vividly’ --Guardian When elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in...

Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking. How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of...

"Nair writes big, brave descriptions of one brutal murder after the next, relentlessly describing each death even as sub-inspector Santosh loses his breakfast over them."—Time Out It's the first day...

The fourth instalment of the Kamil Rahman murder mystery series, THE SPY sees Kamil and his amateur-sleuth restaurant manager partner, Anjoli thrown into the midst of a terrorist plotONE BOY...

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in...

Sam is a war photographer famous for her hauntingly beautiful pictures of the dead. After a particularly gruelling assignment, she checks into an expensive hotel. Unfortunately she has chosen the...

The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel. Ro Krishna is the American son of Indian parents, educated at the finest institutions,...

NAMED ONE OF CRIMEREADS' MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME NOVELS OF 2022 It lurks in the shadows. It lives in your worst nightmares. It feeds on your deepest fears. And it’s coming...

What happens when an innocent prank goes horribly wrong? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine were best friends in college — each different from the other yet inseparable — until that...

From the Man Booker prize-winning author of The White Tiger Danny — Dhananjaya Rajaratnam — is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his...

A girl in a new country. A dark secret left behind. A dead body which might tell all. Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma...

The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of...

Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark AwardWinner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical NovelWinner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel 'Perveen Mistry is...

Gripping, immersive, and full of Vaseem Khan's trademark wit, this is historical fiction at its finest.A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950. For over a century,...

Someone approaches Keshav with a case that the police consider a hopeless one. Will he be able to crack it with his best friend, Saurabh? Keshav is desperately trying to...

The second psychological thriller from Trisha Sakhlecha, author of Your Truth or Mine? In politics there is always someone determined to reveal past secrets, and now a young Indian minister...

*A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH* Kamil Rahman, disgraced detective, turned waiter, is about to find himself embroiled in a case that might just change his life...for better...

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949. As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city's...

If you're fat and Indian, you're rich; if you're fat and poor, you're lying. It's only the West where the rich are thin and vegan and moral...Ramesh Kumar grew up...

THE THRILLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSEBombay, 1950. When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra...

In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut.In 1892, Bombay is the center...

The explosive race-against-time standalone international thriller, set between England and India, from the acclaimed author of the Harry Virdee novels.The last thing Jack Baxi expected when a detective rang his...

The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths.India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains...

Kamil Rahman is a cook in a Brick Lane restaurant. But he used to be a detective back in Kolkata. And somehow trouble still knows how to find him.When a...

Award-winning writer Abir Mukherjee is back with another brilliant Wyndham and Banerjee mystery novel set in 1920s Colonial India. Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his...

A staggering debut novel of murder, loyalty, love, and survival at all costs, set in the teeming underbelly of Calcutta's most infamous neighbourhood.In Calcutta's notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Award for the Eurasia regionThe Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love...

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the...

A searing, gritty debut crime novel with a resourceful and unforgettable heroine who must make her way in a man's world Be twice as good as men and four times...

* A New York Times Notable Book ** One of the Observer's 10 best debut novelists of 2020 ** Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020 * We children are not...

Around the world in 22 murders… MURDER. BLACKMAIL. REVENGE. From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New...

An epic historical heist novel of plundered treasure, savage empire, lasting love and a young man's dream to make his mark on the world. From an Indian American writer at...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and...

Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils...

ISOLATION Harith Athreya is taking a well-earned break at a boutique hotel in the Himalayan foothills. But his holiday is swiftly cut short when mysterious bloody handprints start appearing on...

The First Gabriel Præst Novel Meet Gabriel Præst, an ex-Copenhagen cop (who dresses with panache), jazz aficionado, and relentless pursuer of truth as he explores Denmark’s Nazi-collaborator past and anti-Muslim...

A gripping read — everything beautifully evoked, from the alleys of the Old City to the atmosphere of corruption and secrets. A spellbinding debut set in Pakistan during the anarchic...

The second Harith Athreya mystery: A Golden Age-esque cosy crime set in contemporary India, for fans of Lucy Foley and Knives Out.SECRETSSeasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to...

Utterly compulsive, totally original and with a truly jaw-on-the-floor twist, this is a thriller like no otherCharming and handsome, Ricky Manfredi is living an idyllic playboy life when, out of...

The third novel in the Detective Kamil Rahman Mystery series, THE DETECTIVE follows Kamil on his first case for the Met Police, while his former boss and restaurant manager, Anjoli...

Mist, mountains, murder... Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote and possibly haunted Greybrooke Manor in the misty Nilgiris for the last time. He knows that...

The Das sisters uncover a computer chip black market syndicate operating out of Singapore, willing to murder anyone who disrupts their profiteering. But who is the mastermind?The Das sisters investigate...

A deliciously scandalous pageturner about the dark side of suburbia, peeling back the layers of an insta-perfect life to reveal rotten friendships, manipulation masquerading as love and families riddled with...