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A Guardian and a Thief

A Guardian and a Thief
  • Author(s): Megha Majumdar
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Near future

In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited...

A House for Happy Mothers

A House for Happy Mothers
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): South India, Silicon Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two...

A House in Pondicherry

A House in Pondicherry
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): Pondicherry (Puducherry)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The third in a series of novels set in India. This novel is set in Pondicherry, a tropical Paris flourishing on the shore of the Coromandel coast. At the centre of the novel is the figure of Oriane, a...

A Hundred Hands

A Hundred Hands
  • Author(s): Dianne Noble
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Polly’s husband is jailed for paedophilia, she flees the village where her grandmother raised her and travels to India where she stays with her friend, Amanda. Polly is appalled by the poverty, and what her husband had done,...

A Killer in Kailash: The Adventures of Feluda

A Killer in Kailash: The Adventures of Feluda
  • Author(s): Satyajit Ray
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Young Adult

An American buys a yakshi head stolen from a Bhubaneshwar temple and subsequently dies in a plane crash. Trying to prevent the smuggling of priceless sculptures out of India, Feluda follow the lead.

A Killer in the Family

A Killer in the Family
  • Author(s): Amin Ahmad
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Good-natured but naïve, Mumbai party boy Ali Azeem is drifting through life. Then he meets the Khan sisters: pretty, marriage-material Maryam and sexy, unpredictable, off-the-rails Farhan. They are the daughters of Abbas Khan, the formidable immigrant patriarch of a...

A Madras Miasma

A Madras Miasma
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

In 1920s Madras, Superintendent Chris Le Fanu of the Indian Police Service is a square peg in a round hole. His colleagues resist the rise of Indian nationalism and resent concessions made to India. But Le Fanu served with...

A Mother’s Secret

A Mother’s Secret
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century/21st century

What if you discovered that everything you knew about yourself was a lie? When pregnant Jaya loses her mother, then her baby son Arun in a tragic cot death, her world crashes down. Overcome by grief and guilt, she...

A Mystery at Lili Villa

A Mystery at Lili Villa
  • Author(s): Arathi Menon, Shruti Prabhu (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Cousins Arj, Tam, and Mira are spending their summer vacation in Elathoor, a little village in Kerala when their family home, Lili Villa, is broken into and some jewelry is stolen. The Terrific Three set out to solve the...

A Necessary Evil

A Necessary Evil
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • Location(s): India, Odisha (Orissa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

India, 1920. Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of Calcutta Police must investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharaja’s son… Sam Wyndham is visiting the kingdom of Sambalpore, home to diamond mines and the beautiful Palace of the Sun....

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