COMPLETE LIST OF INDIAN CRIME FICTION IN ENGLISH (ALMOST COMPLETE!)

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Ratnadip Acharya

The speaking stone (2019, Aksora pub LLP & Kindle)

Yda Addis, Nancy Neito & Sterling St.James 

The knotted rope  short story  Kindle 2013(pub Parhelion house)

Corban Addison
A walk across the sun(Quercus, Sept 2013)

Aravid Adiga 

The white tiger 2008

Last man in tower 2011

A.X.Ahmed 

The caretaker A Ranjit Singh novel 2013

The last taxi ride(this novel may not be set in India but Indians in it) 2014

Omair Ahmed
Jimmy the terrorist 2010 (not crime fiction exactly)

Pulkit Ahuja 
Googled by God 2015

Ajay
Resonance

Tariq Ali
The assasination. Who killed Indira G? 2008 Seagull pub, New York

Nish Amarnath
Victims for sale (Harper Collins Publishers India)

Ambai
As the day darkens
A meeting on the Andheri overbridge

Nupur Anand
Mehboob murderer 2019

Rukmani Anandani  
A mysterious death at Sainik farms rupa publications

Deepa Anappara 

 Djinn Patrol on the purple line (Random house 2020)

Kenneth Anderson
Tales of Mansingh: King of Indian dacoits
(pre-independence India, not fiction)

Ajith Anthony
Police surgeon

Anu Kumar

It takes a murder 2012



Ramesh S Arunachalam

Where angels prey   2015

Karishma Attari
Don't look down (Penguin)


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Rahul Badami 

Operation deep strike-an India-Pakistan Covert Ops spy thriller  Oct 2017. Kindle

Amit Bagaria

Spies, lies and red tape (2019, notion press)

 Meenal Baghel

Death in Mumbai 2011

Isaque Bagwan
Me against the Mumbai underworld 2018

Anirudh Bahal 
Bunker13 2004 Paperback 

Prachi Bahumik & Debra Freeman Thorpe(ed) Kate BirchTarunik (ed) 
Art of leaving-a graphic illustrated novella inspired by the brutal Delhi bus rape case 2014 Kindle  Publisher: Prachi Bhaumik

Sharad Bailur
The house on Pali hill -2019
Darkness at midnight-2019
Not a drop to drink-2019

Balakarthiga.M
Three girls and a crime-the beachhouse affair (kindle) 2015

Shakuntala Banaji 
Truth lake 2015 kindle

Adite Banerjie

No safe zone (Harlequin.13 June 2016) 

Kanchana Bannerjee
Nobody's child Harper Collins, India

Saradindu Bandyopadhyaya 

The Menagerie and other Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries (the first story appeared in 1932; the stories have been collected and published recently) Bakshi is possibly the first fictional Indian detective!

Sures Chandra Banerji
Crime and sex in ancient India 1980 (not fiction) Naya Prakosh publications

Ashok K Banker (some of his books are available only as e-books; some or one was published as an online serial)

The iron bra 1992

Ten dead admen 1993

Murder and champagne 1993


4 books in Kali rising series i.e.
Blood red sari  2012
Burnt saffron sky 2012(ebook only)
Rust black heart 2013 (ebook only)
Silver acid rain 2013(ebook only)

Abheek Barua
City of death (the digital version is called 'The beheading')

Kunal Basu
The opium clerk 2002 ( I personally consider this as crime fiction as it has to do with opium) this book is set in British India.

Somnath Batabyal 

The price you pay  2013

Raghuram Belur 

Death by marathon-beginning of detective Raghav (May 5, 2017)

Benyamin
Yellow lights of death(Penguin 2015)

Moitrayee Bhaduri 

The sinister silence 2015
Who killed the murderer? 2019 (kindle)

Chetan Bhagat 
The girl in room 105

One arranged murder (2020)

400 days (Oct 8, 2021: not great reviews)

Vinaya Bhagat
The trickster (Harper Collins Publishers India) Not sure if this is crime or crime and supernatural 

Juggi Bhasin
The terrorist 2012
The avenger 2013
Blood song 2014
Bollywood deception 2016




Sudhakar Bhat
Holier than thou 1978 Sterling publication, 216 pages(I got this book from an online list of crime fiction. I am not sure if it's crime fiction)

Madhumita Bhattacharya

The masala murder 2012

Dead in a Mumbai minute 2014

Goa undercover 2016

Shouvik Bhattacharya 
Murder in a minute Dec 2017, Paperback, Bloombury India

Vasimraja Bhavikatti

Gangs of social media (2020, Kindle an leadstart pub pvt ltd)

Amar Bhushan
Inside Nepal/the walk-in (HarperCollins Publishers India)

Mario Bolduc (author)Nigel Spencer (translator)

The Kashmir trap-A Max O'Brien mystery 2016 paperback and Kindle



Ruskin Bond(born in 1934 and writing since 1951, his stories have captured the charm of a new young independent India to the India of more recent times...below are not 'typical' crime fiction

1 The Rupa book of great crime stories

2 Great escape stories and great crime stories

3 The Rupa book of true tales of mystery and adventure PB

4 The Rupa book of great suspense stories and snappy surprises

5 Shikar stories and great animal stories

6 Tigers for dinner:Tall tales by Jim Corbett's Khansama

7 Season of ghosts

8.Death under the Deodars. The adventures of Miss Ripley Bean (Penguin paperback)

9.Whispers in the dark-a book of spooks. (Penguin publication)

10. A gallery of Rascals: My favorite tales of rogues, raspacallions & Ne-er do-wells. (Aleph book company)



Guy Newell Boothby (1867-1905 an Australian writer who lived and died in England)
A prince of swindlers 1897! (six short crime stories set in India and London) Two stories set in India are 'A criminal in disguise' and 'The den of iniquity'. This book has been recently reissued by Penguin


Mihir Bose 
The Indian spy. The true story of the most remarkable agent of World War -II (Aleph book company. not fiction)

Patrick Bryson
The sad demise of Manpreet Singh 2014, Kindle and paperback(good reviews)



Robert Brightwell
Flashwell and the cobra Adventures of Thomas Flashman-book 2 2013 (This is set in British India and the book's protagonist had been created by another author i.e. George Macdonald Fraser)



Aravid Bugga 
Murder in New Delhi-a tale of business rivalry, advertising & love 2015 Notion press



Ahmed Bunglowala
Shorty Gomes-three vintage crime stories featuring Shorty Gomes, Bombay's ace private eye  Pub: Goa 1556, ISBN: 978-93-80739-94-6



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Joe Chacko

The tender coconut tamasha:An inspector Chatpati mystery(Bangalore civil nuisance unit book -1) GasUndHeit Publishing January 7, 2021

Novoneel Chakraborty 

Marry me stranger 2014

All yours stranger 2015

Forget me not stranger(2016 to be released in April)

Ex-a twisted love story 2013

Black suits you 2016

The best couple ever

Cross your heart, take my name

Forever is a lie

Three shades of thrill

Roses are blood red

Half torn hearts



Rajoshri Chakraborti
Shadow play-a mystery 2010
Mumbai rollercoaster 2012

Saugata Chakraborty
They go to sleep 2019 Notion press


Vikram Chandra

The Srinagar conspiracy 2000

The sacred games 2006



Suresh Chandrashekaran, Radha Sawana & Kartik L (3 authors of one book)
Sirens spell danger  2013 Kindle edition



Pooja Changoiwala
Front page murders  2016 (non-fiction)



Rima B Chatterjee
 Black light 2010 paperback

Sriram Chellapilla
A useful death 2019, Westland publication

Suparna Chatterjee 
The all Bengal crime detectives. 2011, Rupa publications

Souman Chatterjee 

The Calcutta Conumdrum (kindle only, July 25, 2021)



Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
Patang 2016
Here falls the shadow 2017, Hachette pub
Penumbra 2016
The disappearance of Sally Sequira 2018






Nilanjan P Choudhury

The case of the secretive sister 2014 (set in Bangalore, my home town! Very few books are set in Bangalore and I hope there will be more Bangalore crime novels coming in the future) Its to fun read!

Shovan Chowdhury
Murder with Bengali characteristics

 Barbara Cleverly 

The last Kashmiri rose 2001

Ragtime in Simla 2002

The Damascened blade 2003

The palace tiger 2004 

Wilkie Collins
The moonstone (1868) This book is recognized as the first 'proper detective  novel in the world and there are bits of India/Indians in it!)

Hy Conrad
Dearly departed (Jan 26, 2016, pub: Kensington) 



Leigh Copeland(Australian writer)

Where Gods dwell (Jonathan Prosper stories book 1)

The body in the Bokhara (Jonathan Prosper stories book 2) Pub: Feb 26th 2016/Kindle only/ASIN BO1C9QQ8Q2

Kiss miss Book 3



Sir.Edmund Charles Cox
Police and crime in India (not fiction) 1911


John Creasey
The baron goes east -1953(republished by house of Stratus in 2014) (I remember reading a book by this writer which had a character called Dawlish)



John Court Curry
The Indian police 1932(not fiction)




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Veena Das
Life and words:Violence and the descent into the ordinary 2007 (Not fiction) University of California press, Berkeley

Ankita Verma Datta
Trust me not.  Jaico publication, October 2017


Nandini Deka
Unhappily married -An Indian story 2011 kindle




Rahul Deokar

Quest for Kriya 2014...not crime fiction exactly but some crime/thrills are present and it's a highly rated and award winning book


Kishwar Desai

Witness the night 2009
Origins of love 2013
The sea of innocence 2013

Meghnad Desai

Dead on time (The reviews were terrible for this book and I am adding it here only due to my obsessive need to add all Indian crime books)



Salil.Desai 

The body in the back seat  2011
Murder on a side street  2012
The murder of Sonia Raikkonen An inspector Saralkar mystery 2015
Killing Asish Karve 2015
The sane psychopath 2018






Mukul Deva

1Tanzeem 2011

2 Assassins A Ravinder Gill novel 2015

3 Weapon of vengeance a novel 2015

4 RIP 2013

5 The dust will never settle 2012

6 Salim must die 2009

7 Blowback 2010

8 Lashkar 2008

9 The Garud strikes 2014

10 And death came calling 2014





Vish Dhamija

1 Bhendi Bazaar 2014

2 Nothing lasts forever -no secret can stay2010

3 Doosra -the other one 2016

4 Deja Karma 2015

5 Unlawful Justice 2017

6The Moghul 2018

7 The heist artist 2019

8. Lipstick (2019)

A.A.Dhand

Girl zero 2017
Streets of darkness 


Leema Dhar
The committed sin 2016 Kindle and paperback



Mainak Dhar
Line of control 2010
Zombiestan 2012 (set in Afghanistan and a bit in India...mix of horror and crime)


Maloy Krishna Dhar 

Operation Triple X-a real spy story 2007



Upendra Dharmadhikari  & Changali Anand
The princess in black :An unheard story of the Mughals2014



Farrukh Dhondy

The bikini murder 2012



Girvani Dhyani 

Stalked 2014

Sudhir  Dixit
The case of the sleeping client. A J D detective story.


Christopher C Doyle

The Mahabharatha quest-The Alexander secret-2014




Arthur Conon doyle
The sign of four (set in India)
The  adventure of the speckled band (1892)



 Neil D'Silva
Maya's new husband 2015(only in kindle)



Ranjeev C Dubey

Legal confidential-adventures of an Indian lawyer(non-fiction crime)2015

Bullshit quotient-decoding India’s corporate, social and legal fineprint(non-fiction crime)2012



Manish Dubey
A murder in Gurgaon 2016


Tanmey Dubey
The red line 2019
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Nargish Engineer and Kaiomarz Engineer

Mango orchard: Demon lurking in the undergrowth. Pub: Nov 10th 2014/Kindle/ASIN B00PGKA8EW


Stephen Meredyth Edwardes
Crime in India :a brief review of the more important offences included in the annual criminal returns with chapters on prostitution and miscellaneous matters 1924 Humphrey Milford publication, London (Not fiction)

Epic (This is supposed to be author's name! I swear!)
Adrishya Stories of great Indian spies 2017 (Rupa publications)

Ravi Shankar Etteth
The brahmin (Westland publications, March 2018) This is espionage/thriller/crime but historical (before BC)

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Shamini Flint 

Inspector Singh investigates a most peculiar Malaysian murder (2009)

Inspector Singh investigates a Bali conspiracy most foul (2009)

Inspector Singh investigates the Singapore school of villainy (2010)
 Inspector Singh investigates a deadly Cambodian crime spree(2011)

 Inspector Singh investigates a curious Indian cadaver (2012)

Inspector Singh investigates a calamitous Chinese killing (2013) Inspector Singh investigates a frightfully English execution (2016)

Karim Fossum
The Indian bride (not a book by Indian writer really and it's not a crime set in India but about one single Indian in a foreign country)



Leslie Forbes
Bombay ice  2001
Fish, blood and bones 2001



George Macdonald Fraser
The (Harry Paget Flashman)Flashman series by this author are more funny adventures than crime fiction and there are 12 books in this highly acclaimed series.
The ones set in pre-independent India are
The Flashman papers book one 1969
The Flashman series book 4 Flashman and the mountain of light 1990
The Flashman papers-book 8 Flashman in the great game 1975

Another author Robert Brightwell continued writing about a similar character Thomas Flashman


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Reethi Gadekar 

Families at home 2008



Arjun Raj Gaind
A very pukka murder A Maharaja Mystery 2016
Death at the Durbar-2018

Vinod Gairola
Con Kabir 1916. Frog books, 



Raju Ganapathy: 

The reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes: Bangalore mystery series (Nov 15, 2019. Kindle)

Hugh and Colleen Gantzer( a couple who wrote under the alias Shyam Dave)
The Guru docket Orient publication ?1978
The Issac docket Orient publication ?1978
The stark docket Orient publication ?1978
All 3 had a hero Jawaharlal Atim Zadu (JAZ) akin to James Bond!


Saurabh Garg

The Nidhi Kapoor story 2014




Prem Gandhi

A thorny ride 2013







Sumanta Ganguly 

Fighting shadows 2001


Sonali Garg
The half murder mystery(economic murder mysteries aka  COD mysteries book -1) 2015 kindle

Sumit Ghosal 
The dead don't talk (Om book international pub, Jan 1, 2021)

Amitav Ghosh

The Calcutta chromosome-a novel of fever, delirium and discovery 2009



Aruna Gill
The Indus intercept 2012



Aisha K Gill, Carolyn Strange & Karl Roberts(ed)
Honour killings and violence:Theory, policy and practice 2014 Palgrave Macmillan pub(Not fiction)



Anil Goel  

Release 2.0 The Bangalore imperative 2007
Exit point 2014




Hema Gollamudi

The Offsite  (pub: Create space independent publishing platform, Aug 15th, 2011. Paperback in English)

Harihara Kumar Gopalan 

Two accidents  November 10th,2014 (Kindle format)



Sundip Gorai
Hickory Dickory Shock The tale of techies 2010

Seema Goswami 
Racecourse road   2018 Kindle and hardcover

Kanta Grover
Burning flesh (Not fiction I think) 1990


Aashish Gupta
Demons in my mind Notion Press, March 2017

Anandswarup Gupta
Police and crime in India upto 1861 , Sahitya Bhawan publications 1974


Dhruv Gupta
The Delhi detective- 2019


Githa Hariharan Anandswarup Gupta
Fugitive histories 2009(Not 'entertaining' crime fiction exactly but depicts the ugly side of India)


Ruby Gupta
A degree in death 2012 (paper back)




Sarang Gupta

The trial of 2091-2015


Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury

Black warrant. Confessions of a Tihar jailor  (Roli books)

Aayush Gyupta
Toppers by any means necessary (Penguin books)

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Tarquin Hall (British author, in India until 2016 and fled to UK due to Delhi's pollution)!

The case of the missing servant 2008

The case of the man who died laughing 2010

The case of the deadly butter chicken 2012

The case of the love commandos 2013

The case of the reincarnated client 2019

Saad Z Hossain
Escape from Bhagdad (Aleph book company)



Hemant Kumar
Prey by the Ganges 2011 paperback


Patrick Hoenig & Navsharan Singh(editors)
Landscapes of fear-understanding impunity in India Zubaan books.(not fiction)



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Kartik Iyengar

Predator Horn OK please 2014
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Mita Jain
Dead man's alibi -2015 (kindle; sold by amazon digital)

Saskya Jain
Fire under ash-2014

Smitha Jain
Kkrishnaa's konfessions 2008 paperback

Piggies on the railway a Kasturi Kumar mystery2010

Mahendra Jakhar

The butcher of Benares 2014

The swastika killer 2017 Westland pub

Balli Kaur Jaswal

Erotic stories for Punjabi widows 2017 (writer is a Singaporean; story is set in London, UK; crime is only a small part of this novel; yet, it is in list of 'Indian' crime fiction as the characters in the novel are of Indian origin, though citizens of UK)

Piush Jha

Raakshas 2016

Mumbaistan 2012

Antisocial network 2014

Compass box killer 2013


Abhimanyu Jha

Mumbai 2008-a love story(A Dilli-Mumbai love story)when love won over terror 2011, Kindle and paperback

Alok Jha and Sapna Jha

The first trillionaire 2017 Kindle (authorsupfront pub) April 2017


Manu Joseph
Miss Laila, armed and dangerous (2017, pub by fourth estate)

Joygopal
The chief minister's mistress 2015


Hrishikesh Joshi

Checkmate 2015



Karen Jonson

Sex, lies and 2 Hindu Gurus (author’s not Indian, crime is not set in India, but it's added to this list) 2014




Sheeja Jose  (lady writer)

Goodbye girl 2014 Whitewall publishers Kindle and paperback



Manoj Joshi
Combating terrorism in Punjab:Indian democracy in a crisis 1993 Pub:Research Institute for the study of conflict and terrorism, London.(not fiction)





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Kalyan C Kankanala

Pirates of Bollywood 2015



Kannan.G 
The great Indian fire 2011 paperback



Pratima Kapur
Borrowed plumes



Siddarth Kara 
Sex trafficking:Inside the business of modern slavery 2009 (not fiction) Columbia University press, New York

Gavudham Karunanidhi

Full moon: a crime thriller (independently published April 17, 2018 . paperback and Kindle)

Saurab Katyal
Seduced by murder 2014
The invisible woman (kindle edition)



Swathi Kaushal

All that glitters 2014

Drop dead-A Niki Marwah mystery 2012

Lethal spice 2014(for teens?)


HRF Keating:This author's books are based in India but he visited India only after having written many of his books!

The Perfect Murder 1964

Inspector Ghote's crusade 1966

Inspector Ghote caught in meshes 1967

Inspector Ghote hunts the peacocks 1968

Inspector Ghote plays a joker 1969

Inspector Ghote breaks an eggo 1970

Inspector Ghote goes by train 1971

Inspector Ghote trusts the heart 1972

Bats fly up for Inspector Ghote 1974

Filmi, Filmi Inspector Ghote  1976

Inspector Ghote draws a line 1979

The murder of the Maharajh 1980

Go west, Inspector Ghote 1981

The Sheriff of Bombay 1984

Under a monsoon cloud 1986

The body in the billiard room 1987

Dead on time 1988

The Iciest sin 1990

Inspector Ghote , his life and crimes (1989) short story collection

Cheating death 1992

Doing wrong 1993

Asking questions 1996

Bribery, corruption also 1999

Breaking and entering 2000

Inspector Ghote's first case 2008

Kamala Kempadoo, Bandana Pattanaik & Jothi Sanghera(eds)
Trafficking and prostitution reconsidered:new perspectives on migration, sex work and human rights 2nd ed 2012 Paradigm publishers London

Tabish Khair
Jihadi Jane 2016

How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position 2017

Night of happiness 2018

Gabriel Khan
The dirty dozen:Hitmen of the Mumbai underworld . 2017(not fiction)

Special 26

Sami Ahmed Khan
Red Jihad The battle for South Asia

Vikrant Khanna

The girl who disappeared 2020 Penguin pub





Tabish Khair

How to fight Islamist terror from the missionary position (? crime/?novel) 2015.

The thing about thugs 2010(may not be crime fiction..?philosophy?)

Swapnil Khamkar
8-The game is on


Sami Ahmad Khan
Red Jihad-Battle for south Asia 2012, Paperback



Shadaab Amjad Khan(this author is son of famous actor Amjad Khan, the notorious Gabbar Singh of movie Sholay) 

Murder in Bollywood 2015 

Vaseem Khan

The unexpected inheritance of Inspector Chopra. 2015

The perplexing theft of the jewel in the crown(Baby Ganesha Agency Investigation) Aug 2016

The strange disappearance of a Bollywood star (Baby Ganesha Agency Investigation) July 18, 2017

Inspector Chopra and the million dollar motor car(A baby Ganesha agency short story) February 2018

Murder at the Grand Raj Palace(Baby Ganesha Agency Investigation) June 12, 2018

Last victim of the monsoon express (June 13, 2019) maybe only in Kindle
Bad day at the vulture club (August 8, 2019; Mulholland publication, maybe only in kindle)

Midnight at Malabar House (2020) This has a female detective!

The dying day (2021)

The lost man of Bombay (2022) 

Death of a lesser God Dec 5, 2023 (Malabar house pub)


Sunny King
The adventure of the Bengal Tyger (educreation pub) I don't think this book is really published...I saw it online and it said 'sample copies, not for distribution)

Rudyard Kipling
Kim 1901-set in British India (I love this book!)
The drums of the fore and aft(not sure if this would classify as crime fiction)
The man who would be king (not sure if this would classify as crime fiction)

Plain tales from the hills

Ruchi Kokcha
Obsessed May 2018.Harper Collins




Sharath Kommarraju . 

Murder in Amaravati  2012

The crows of Agra 2015
Loyalty net 2016 Kindle edition
The tree bears witness  Nov 2017  Westland pub

Arun Krishnan
Antisocial (2016)


M.N.Krish
The Steradian trail-book # 0 of the infinity trail 2013





K.Harikumar

That frequent visitor Every face has a darker side 2015, Srishti publishers and distributors

N. J. Kulkarni 

The Hawa Mahal Murders (Oct 16, 2019 Viswakarma publications, good reviews)

Neeraj Kumar

Dial D for Don(non-fiction crime?) 2015

Vee Kumari

Dharma (A Reakha Rao mystery)



Michael Kurland
The empress of India 2007, Macmillan pub

Paramu Kurumathur

The first aryan. The legend of Vrsakap. 2019 Penguin pub (murder mystery set in Vedic times!)





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Richa Lakhera
Item girl



Ranjit Lal 

The secret of Falcon Heights 2014 (for teens?) 

Vandana Singh-Lal

So all is peace 2019 Penguin pub

Meenakshi Lekhi and Krishna Kumar 
The New Delhi Conspiracy (Harpe Collins Publishers India, 2019)





Alun Lewis(1915-1944)
 In  the green tree: the letters and stories of Alun Lewis: some stories are crime fiction set in British India/rated highly by readers. Pub: Parthian Books/Pub date: Oct 2006





Madhulika Liddle
The Englishman's cameo (Muzaffar Jang mysteries)2011
The eighth gang and other Muzaffar Jang mysteries 2011
Engraved in stone -a Muzaffar Jang mystery 2012
My lawfully wedded husband and other stories 2013
Crimson city 2015


Amit Lodha
Bihar diaries:The true story of how Bihar's most dangerous criminal was caught 2018 non-fiction

Sahil Loomba
The faceless Saldirgan

Richard Lord (editor)
Crime scene Asia: crime fiction from India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam 2013 Monsoon books pte and Kindle (short crime stories set in different Asian countries by different authors and one may be set in India which is The case of too many fingerprints by Abha Iyengar)
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Sri M

The homecoming and other stories

Chetan Mahajan
The bad boys of Bokaro jail

Nikhil Mahajan
White smoke -the missing Shimla girl 2017


Megha Majumdar

A burning 2020


Saikat Majumdar 

Silverfish    2015

Dr. Sohil Makwana

Murdrum:The probe begins.  

Manohar Malgonkar
The garland keepers 2013 Rupa publications(But first print would be many years earlier)
Spy in amber Rupa publications 2013(But first print would be many years earlier)
Cactus country 2010
Bandicoot run 1982
Open season 1978
Hush

Ashwin Malhotra

Kala Ghoda: The game of power (Dhruva publishers, Aug 11, 2018)


Chander Malhotra 
Video pirates movie-adventures of two Bollywood heros- seeking the pirate 2016(only in Kindle...I think)

 Sukhdeepak Malwai
The Indian resurrection 2016

Paul Mann
Season of the monsoon 1992
The ganja coast 1995
The burning ghats 1996-aka-The burning tide 1997




Kiran Manral 
Reluctant detective 2011 
Missing, presumed dead 2018

Nev March

Murder in old Bombay (Nov 2020, Minatour books)

Sujatha Massey
The widows of Malabar Hill 2018/A murder on Malabar hill
The Satapur moonstone 2019

The Bombay prince (2021)


John Masters
The deceivers 1966(set in British India)
Bhowani junction 1954
The lotus and the wind 1953



Kathleen McCaul
Murder in the ashram-welcome to the dark side of Delhi. 2012, book format

Cortright McMeel
Noir Nation:International Crime Fiction No 3 (Paperback, Oct 1st 2013). Short stories of crime, Many authors


Aswathi Menon
Scarred for life healed forever 2015 Kindle

Raza Mir

Murder at the Mushaira (Aleph book company)

Ameresh Misra
The minister's wife 2002

Jaishree Mishra

A love story for  my sister 2015

A scandulous secret 2011

Secrets and sins 2010

Secrets and lies 2009

The little book of romance

Accidents like love and marriage 2001



Suneeta Misra
Rani of Rampur 2012, Kindle & paperback



Monabi Mitra

FIR 2012

The dead don't confess 2013

The final report 2014



Peggy Mohan
The youngest suspect ?2012(more about the ugliness of India than 'entertaining' crime fiction)



Saurav Mohapatra
Mumbai Confidential:Good cop bad cop 2013



Moitrayee

The sinister silence 2015


Steve Morris
Mario's   Aug 3rd 2011, Kindle



Abir Mukherjee
A rising man  (Wyndam and Bannerjee series)2016 (This book is set in British India) This book has received high praise! I read this book//nice//first in the series
Necessary Evil book 2. 2017
Smoke and Ashes book 3. 2019 
Death in the east book 4. Nov 2019

The shadows of men  5. 2021
Sin is the new love 2018 (not in the series)

Richa S Mukherjee
Kanpur Khoofiya Pvt Ltd (Harper Collins Publishers India)


Sourabh Mukherjee

In the shadows of death:A detective Agni Mitra thriller 2015

The colors of passion unravelling the dark secrets behind the limelight 2017

The sinners 2019

The hunt



George Munroe (AKA Charles Munroe)
Alec Cowie & the Delhi assignment- 2012, paperback pub:Xlibris



N.Murali
His night begins 2014 book & kindle



Timeri N Murari
The oblivion tapes 1978,  Berkley Pub Corp, 1978
The imperial agent 1989 (the main character is  the adult Kim, created by Kipling!)
The shooter 1984 The story does NOT take place in  India and the characters are NOT INDIAN...only the author is!




Sweta Mustare & Chaitanya Gubbala & Hirday 

1987 The year it all began -2016

Ram Muthiah
Tell my dad -Kindle 2015(also paperback) This is by Indian writer but NOT set in India as far as I can guess

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Nag Mani (This is a male author; his name sounds like it's a lady!)

The green room 2015 Kindle and paperback

Sudeep Nagarkar
Stand by me (Westland pub, Nov 2019)

The secrets we keep 2019 (Penguin pub)

Chandrashekar Nagawaram 
case number 56  (2018) 

Harini Nagendra

The Bangalore Detective Club: A novel (Kaveri and Ramu 1)

(May 3, 2022 Hard cover pub)


Anita Nair

Cut like wound. 2014 ( I am a Gowda from Bangalore and thrilled about a Gowda detective who has put Bangalore on the world crime fiction map!)

Chain of custody second in the Gowda series 2016

Kalpana M Naghnoor

Die if you must:political immortality and crime weave the final betrayal (Independently published January 23, 2021)

Arun K Nair
Murderous greed 2017

Amit Nangia
Catch me? No you cant! 2015
Killer in the shadows

Brinda.S.Narayan 
No trespassing (April 26, 2019)Tranquebar Publication

Usha Narayan

The Madras Mangler (Leadtsart publishing, Jan 1, 2013)


Shatrujeeth Nath


The Karachi deception 2013




Laxmi Natraj

Incubating in the deep (book & Kindle version) Pub date: March 17th 2006/Patridge publishing, India
A bride, a murder and a trail of blood 2017




Satyarth Nayak
The emperor's riddles 2014



Arvind Nayar
Operation Karakoram 2005

Jamyang Norbu
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes Jan 2003, Bloomsbury pub(not indian exactly)

Badrinath Nuggeh
Clear line of fire 2012

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Veena Talwar Oldenberg
Dowry murder:the imperial origins of a cultural crime 2002, Oxford university press, New York(not fiction)




Susan Oleksiw
Under the eye of Kali 2010(foreign writer...set in Kovalam, Kerala)
The wrath of Shiva 2012
For the love of Parvati 2014
When Krishna calls August 2016
All 4 of Susan's books have a female protoganist and set in Kerala.



Zac O'Yeah(Swedish writer writing crime fiction set in Bangalore!)

Mr. Majestic the tout of Bengaluru-2012
Hari a hero for hire 2015
Tropical detective :A Hari Majestic Mystery 2017


I read the first and second of Yeah's books...they are hilarious and a must read!

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P

Deepanjali Pal
Hush a bye baby, the cradle will fall (Juggernaut)

Matthew Panamkat
The Meluhan tablet 2011Frog books and also Kindle
Girl sold 2019 Buuks publication and Kindle publication

Amitabh Pandey
Himalayan White Vol 1 of the Himalayan series 2016, book and kindle

Himalayan Hazard 2017



Neeraj Pandey
Ghalib Danger


Sorab Pant
Under Delhi



Gaurav Parab
Rustom the last story teller of Almore 2015(not 100% sure if it's crime)

Karan Parananandaka
The monsoon murders 2016



Surender Mohan Pathak
Daylight robbery English translation and pub:2010; translator:Sudarshan Purohit; Blaft publication)

Framed (Translated form of Hazaar haath)



Surender Mohan Pathak Gaurav

The Colaba conspiracy 2015

The last goal 2012 (I think it's in English)

Surender Mohan Pathak and  Sudarshan Purohit                        The 65 lakh heist

Yash Pawasker

The three psychos (2007, Dimple publications)

Jazeera: Legend of the fort island (2019, Kindle unlimited)

Girl in the green villa (Kindle only Feb, 27, 2021)

Peggy Payne
Sister India (2002)


Ellis Peters
Mourning raga 2015
Death to the landlords 2015

M.Naresh Pi

The Goddess daughter 2015 Kindle edition



Ravi Pai
Bold and vulnerable in Delhi 2013 Kindle ASIN:B00CQ7BUEK

Maxwell Pereira
The Tandoor murders  2018 Context publisher (written by police officer of a real case)

Jerry Pinto
A murder in Mahim


Rajai Pitroda

Startstruck 2011



Joygopal Podder (has written a record breaking number of crime novels in the shortest time!)

Mumbai dreams 2012 Kindle
Beware of the night 2012 paperback
A million seconds too late 2012 paperback
Merchant of dreams 2012
Vanished 2013
Goddess -2013(may not be crime)
Superstar -glorious destinies founded on dark secrets 2011
Millenium city-death comes uninvited 2011
Deceivers -2010 pub:Pustak mahal
The inheritance 2010 pub: Peacock books
The landlord's secrets and other stories 2011 Atlantic publishers
High alert 2011
Truth is greater than fiction 2011
My friend's unsuitable fiancée 2014
My husband, my lover, my husband's lover 2014
3 mixed up men 2014
Dynasty 2014
Chief minister's mistress 2015


Tanushree Poddar
A closetful of skeletons (2017)
Before you breathe (2019)

Rajinder Prabhakar
Deadly Shadows (Jan 2020, Bloomsbury India)


Manjiri Prabhu
The astral alibi 2016
The Cavansite conspiracy 2011
The gypsies at Noelles retreat 2012
The cosmic clues 2013
Stellar signs 2014
In the shadow of inheritance 2014
The trail of four 2017


Nikhil Pradhan

Cold Truth.  Harper Collins pub

Gyan Prakash
Mumbai fables 2010

Clark Prasad
Baramulla Bomber 2012
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Q

Seabury Quinn

A rival from the grave:the complete tales of Jules De Grandin vol 4 (2018)  These are paranormal stories and only two of the stories have something to do with India. Though I have put 2018 as year of publication, these stories were written in 1930s and published then.

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R

Hilda Raj
Trail of evil 1978, Vikas publications



Vithal Rajan
Holmes of the Raj 2006, Pub: Writers workshop, Calcutta



Shreyas Rajgopal/Shrey 

Saltwater 2014






Vinay Ramakrishna

Bangalore chronicles: A kidnap.  Paperback/Pub: Notion press Pub date: Sept 8th 2015  (set in Bangalore, my home town)



Aroon Raman
Skyfire
The shadow throne

Yudhi Raman

The Tantulous redemption 2014


Senani(Ramakrishna SR)(Tr.Krupakar)

Birds, beasts and bandits-14 days with Veerappan 2011

Aarti V Raman
White knight (Leadstart publishing. Jan 1, 2012)

Aroon Raman
The shadow throne 2012
The treasure of Kafur 2013



R.V.Raman

Fraudster 2014
Insider 2016
Saboteur 2017
Conspirator (2018)

A will to kill (2019)


Rani Ramakrishnan
Twice blessed. Kindle September 2017
The murder suspect 2019 Independently published and also Kindle

Sujatha Rangarajan
Anitha A trophy wife  Kindle and paperback. June 2017. Westland publication

Apeksha Rao

Along came a spyder (2020, Treeshade books pub)

Subba Rao
No murder tonight . April 2017. Kindle  Notion press

Suryadevara Rama Mohan Rao

The dictator of the dark Kindle 2014



Vivek Rao
Shot down



Himanshu Rasam

Operation chaos 2015




Sheela Raval 

Godfathers of crime-face to face with India’s most wanted (non-fiction crime) 2015






Arnab Ray

The mine 2012
The Mahabharatha murders Aug 2017, Paperback
Sultan of Delhi Ascension November 2016 Hachette India



Sathyajit Ray's (for those who don't know, Sathyajit Ray is a world famous movie director from Calcutta; he had multiple talents including writing)

Feluda series
1 Danger in Darjeeling 1965-66 

2 The emperor's ring 1966-67

3 Kailash Chowdhury's jewel 1967

4 The Anubis mystery 1967

5 Trouble in Gangtok 1970

6 The golden fortress 1971

7 Incident on the Kalka mail 1972

8 A killer in Kailash 1973

9 The key 1973

10 The royal Bengal mystery 1974

11 The locked chest 1975

12 The mystery of the Elephant god 1975

13 The bandits of Bombay 1976

14 The mystery of the walking dead 1976

15 The secret of the cemetery 1977

16 The curse of the goddess 1978

17 The house of death1979

18 The mysterious tenant 1980

19 The criminals of Kathmandu 1980

20 Napolean's letter 1981

21 Tintoretto's Jesus 1982

22 The disappearence of Amber Sen 1983

23 The gold coins of Jehangir 1983

24 Crime in Kedarnath 1984

25 The acharya murder case 1985

26 Murder in the mountains 1986

27 The case of the apsara theatre 1987

28 Peril in paradise 1987

29 Shakuntala's necklace 1988

30 Feluda in London 1989

31 The mystery of the pink pearl 1989

32 Dr.Munshi's diary 1990

33 The mystery of Nayan 1990

34 Robertson's ruby 1992

35 The magical mystery 1995-96

On the run with Fotikchand

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Shantanu Guha Ray
Found dead  2017

Steve Robinson

Letters from the dead (Jefferson Tayte genealogical mystery book 7) 2018 This is a book set in Scotland and a bit of British India

Dan Rogel (foreign author; crime sent in India)
Optimal exposure 2016 Kindle and CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform(Nov 1, 2016). 

S

Elana Sabharwal
The Delhi deception 2013,  book and kindle format;  Pub: Create space, independent Publishing platform



Anand Sachidanandan

Book of destruction 2012



Nayantara Sahgal
Mistaken identity 1989

Plans for departure (mystery and romance)2015

Lesser breeds (?crime and history)2003

Ibn-e-Safi (1928-1980)is considered the greatest crime fiction writer in Urdu and the greatest crime fiction writer of Pakistan, even today. He wrote between 1940-1980; he was born in a village in Uttar Pradesh India and moved to Pakistan and so I claim him to be  at least part-Indian!  A few of his crime novels  have been recently translated from Urdu to English.  He has written 250 novels of which 125+ are crime fiction and he's possibly the most prolific crime writer from Pakistan! It is sad that only 6 of his books seem to have been translated from Urdu to English! Translating any books from Urdu to English is a challenging task. Conveying meaning along with the nuances... without losing the poetry of Urdu is daunting even to the most gifted Urdu-English bilingual!  The more I read about this author, the more intriguing I find him!

Smoke water 1957
The dangerous man 1952
Poisoned arrow 1957
The laughing corpse 1957
The house of fear
Doctor dread 1957
This link below gives the full list of his books unde Jassosi Duniya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jasoosi_Dunya_by_Ibn-e-Safi
I bought 4 of the books listed above and was quite disappointed after reading one and will not be reading the rest. Maybe, I-Ben-Safi books lose their beauty when translated or the books are not for readers of this century. 





Ankush Saikia

The girl from Nongrim hills (2013)

Red river hills 2015
Dead meat ?2015
Remember death ?2016
More bodies will fall 2018

Trisha Sakalecha

Your truth or mine? (2019, Macmillan publication)


Fahad Samar

Flashpoint 2014



Preeta Samarasan

Evening is the whole day(crime fiction set in Malaysia of Indian family) 2011




Aswin Sambamurthy

Infinite lives series-book 1(Kindle format) crime novella/set in Bangalore Pub: April 9th 2016; publisher:self-published



Sat Parkash Sangar
Crime and punishment in Mughal India 1967, Delhi Sterling publishers (not fiction)




Ashwini Sanghi

The Krishna key 2012

The Rozabal line 2012

The Sialkot Saga April 2016

 Keepers of the Kalachakra 2018


Ashwini Sanghi and James Patterson
Private India 2014
Private Delhi 2017



Manasi Sapre

Pune murder chronicles 2014



Anish Sarkar
Benaami -2010(dont worry. this is in English!)

Arita Sarkar
Kidnapped: True stories of abduction ransom and revenge 2019

Supratim Sarkar 
Murder in the city:12 incredible case files of the Kolkata police 2018 (translated by Swati Sengupta) non-fiction



Sathyajit Sarna
A permanent position (Harper 21)   2013, Kindle




Uday Satpathy

Brutal 2015



Hirsh Sawney(editor)

Delhi Noir 2009



Sapan Saxena 

Finders keepers 2014


Pradeep Sebastian

The book hunters of Katpadi 2017


Avirook Sen

Aarushi 2015




Priya Sethi  
My wedding without a Paithani-short story   2015 Kindle



Pratik Shah
Operation Jai Mata Di 2015 (paperback)

Vivaan Shah

Midnight Freeway (Penguin pub, Nov 22, 2021)

Shakuntala Devi

The perfect murder 2013 (Kindle) (This book was written in 1976 by. a world famous Indian lady mathematician. Reviews indicate she is not great at writing)

Abhisar Sharma
The edge of the machette

Bulbul Sharma
The tailor of Giripul (HarperCollins)

Murder in Shimla (Speaking tiger books pub, Papwer back Feb 10, 2020)

Kritika Sharma
The slut chronicles-Betrayed (2018)

Sandeep Sharma
The coin 2018
The stalker 2019 Sanghamitra Sharma
Cast a long shadow 2017

Vedashree Khambate-Sharma
Swear you won't tell (March 16, 2018, ebook and paperback Harper-Collins, India)

Vishesh Sharma
The lost temple (Ebook and paperback)


Arjun Shekar

A flawed God 2011 paperback


Jyoti Shelar

Bhais of Bangalore 2017 (Penguin Random house) NOT FICTION



Sharmishtha Shenoy and Manoj Vijayan

Vikram Rana investigates-tales of murder and deception in Hyderabad 2016 Kindle and paperback
Fatal fallout
A season for dying
Behind the scenes

Kochery C Shibu

Faith and the beloved  (2020, Kindle and Mishan Design point, pvt limite)

Shiv Kumar

Operation India one 2015

Bilal Siddique

The bard of blood  2015 Penguin

The phoenix 2020 Penguin pub

Harinder Sikka

Calling Sehmat .  May 2018 Paperback India Penguin publication


Gauri Sinh 
Drop dead gorgeous  2019(Harper India)

Aditya Sinha

The CEO  who lost his head. (Jan 1, 2017. Pan Macmillan pub, India)

Arunava Sinha 
The moving shadow (Aleph book company; Rupa and co pub) Short noir stories of India and Bangladesh translated by A. Sinha

Indra Sinha 

The death of Mr.Love  2003 paperback


Braham Singh
Bombay Swastika Sept 2017 Om Book International pub


Brijesh Singh

Quantum siege 2015

Daniel Paul Singh
Eleven hours 2018



Krishna Partap Singh 
Young Turks(Raisina Trilogy) 2010
Delhi Durbar 2010
The war ministry 2012

Ruchi Singh
The bodyguard . March 2018 Kindle
Boomerang 2015 Kindle (crime fiction but short stories)

Sushant Singh and Kulpreet Yadav
Queens of crime:true stories of women criminals from India 2019



Vibha Singh
A convenient culprit 2013(penguin)

Arunava Sinha
The moving shadow. Electrifying Bengali pulp fiction (Aleph book company)



Radhika Singha 
A despotism of law:crime and justice in early colonial India 1998 Oxford university press, New York, Delhi. (Not fiction)

Gauri Sinh
The miss India murders 2018 Harper Collins

Aditya Sinha

The CEO who lost his head 2017

Sivami
The orphan 2015 Kindle

Sitaraman
The whistleblowers:when landsharks baited death. Kindle & Paperback May 2014



Manreet Sodhi Someshwar 
The  Taj conspiracy 2012
The hunt for the Kohinoor book two 2013

Captain Sourabh
Boom baby (kindle) 2015

Agni Sreedhar

My days in the underworld rise of the Bangalore mafia (Tranquebar publications, Sept 20, 2013)

The gangster's Gita (Dec 9, 2019)

R.Sreeram 

Kalyug  2014



Raghu Srinivasan
The Avatari 2014

Anuraag Srivastava
Twenty twenty: A  race against time 2017

Steve Stevenson
The pearl of Bengal #2 (2013) This is mystery for young kids


Ravi Subramanian
Devil in pinstripes Dec 2009
The incredible banker 2011
The bankster  Sept 2012, Rupa pub
Bankerupt Jan 2014
God is a gamer Sept 2014
If God was a banker Nov 2014
In the name of God 2017 Penguin
Don't tell the governor 2018

A brutal hand, there's no escape 2020

Insomnia: Keep your eyes open 2020

Adithya Sudarshan
A nice quiet holiday 2009



Geetha Sundar
The Premier murder league 2011



C.P.Surendran
Hadal (2016-based on real events)



Praveen Swami
Gold flake



Kalpana Swaminathan

 The page three murders 2006
Bougainvillea House 2006

The secret gardener 2013
Greenlight 2017
Murder in seven acts (Speaking tiger) 2018
The gardener's song 2007
Cryptic death and other stories 1997
I never knew it was you 2012
Monochrome Madonna 2012
Page three murders 2018



Rasleen Syal

Happily murdered 2014






Varun Sehgal

Shunya -the myth 2014


Avirook Sen 

Aarushi 2015




Shakuntala Devi (She has no last name)
Perfect murder Kindle/Orient publishing /ASIN:B00C9VFUYY



Abhisar Sharma

The edge of the machete 2012 (set in Pakistan/Afganistan but has an Indian in it!)



Bulbul Sharma

The tailor of Giripul 2013



Pran Kumar Sharma
Daboo comic strips which appeared in Indian magazines of the 70s



Prashant Sharma

If I pretend I am sorry, will you pretend and forgive me 2011



Vishesh Sharma

The lost temple 2015(self-published)Kindle and paperback



Krishna Shastri Devulapalli
Jump cut 2013





Bilal Siddiqi
The bard of blood The secret war in Balochistan is about to explode 2015


Brijesh Singh
Quantum siege 2014


Preethi Singh
Flirting with fate 2012



Ruchi Singh
Boomerang 2015 Kindle (short story)

Aditya Sinha
The spy chronicles (2018)



R.Sreeram 
 Kalyug 2014

Agni Sreedhar Harini Srinivasan
My days in the underworld-rise of the Bangalore mafia-2013(this book is translated from Kannada and the English version is apparently an abridged one)

Harini Srinivasan

The curse of Anuganga (Treeshade books, 2019)

The Pataliputra murders (to be published)

Priya Ramesh Swaminathan

The enigma and other stories (Kindle)2015
The mysterious basement of summer city. Enter at your own risk! (2017, paperback and kindle)

Niraj Srivastava

A ship of many oars-a collection of short stories 2015



Mike Stocks

White man falling(? It’s not crime fiction, not Indian writer but set in India)2008


Brian Stoddart

The Madras Miasma 2014
The Pallampur predicament. 2015
A straits settlement (will be released May 2016)
A greater god (2018)
These four books are set in the India before independence and British India...but written in 2014,15,16 &18!

I am waiting to get my hands on these three books!



Ravi Subramanian
Devil in pinstripes 2009
The incredible banker 2011
The bankster 2012
Bankerupt 2013
God is a gamer 2014
The bestseller she wrote 2015
Don't tell the governor 2018

 Aditya Sudarshan 
A nice quiet holiday 2009

Zainab Sulaiman
Simply Nanju May 2016, Duckbill pub, (Whodonit for children)



Amrita Suresh
When a lawyer walks down the aisle 2015 Kindle


Aabid Surti
Shooja comic strips which appeared in Indian magazines  of the 70s (It was in Kannada language in a magazine called Sudha, available in Karnataka in the 70s I think)
Bahadur comics of the 80s published by Indrajal comics


Suvika
A man to die for 2015, Kindle
To Hi Tu 2013 Kindle

Kalpana Swaminathan
Murder in seven acts 2018(Speaking tiger pub)



Vikas Swarup

Six suspects 2008
The accidental apprentice 2014

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Praveen Swami
The little book of poisons

Kalpana Swaminathan
Cryptic death and other stories 1997
The page three murders-2006
Bougainvilla house 2006(crime?)
The gardener's song-2007
The monochrome madonna-2012
I never knew it was you-2012
The secret gardener 2013

T

Varun T . ( I am assuming Varun is his first name and his last name begins with T)
Psycon 2017


Rajesh Talkwar
How to kill a billionaire


Ismita Tandon
Jacob Hills 2013  
Love kills 2014

Preti Taneja 

We that are young 2018

Shweta Taneja

Cult of chaos (Harper Collins, Jan 19, 2015)

Adi Tantimedh
Her nightly embrace The Ravi PI series Nov 2016
Her beautiful monster Book 2 of the Ravi PI series. Dec 2017
Her fugitive heart 2019

Phillips Meadow Taylor
Confessions of a thug .  2001 Rupa paperback (more a social science but it's crime too) This was first published in 1840

Tarun J Tejpal 
The story of my assasins 2012(high priase)


Anand Teltumbde
The persistence of caste :the Khairlanji murders and India's hidden apartheid 2010, Zed books, London(Not fiction)


Anil Thakraney

An invitation to death-vol one 2015

Monika Thakur
The secret of the sculptures (2017)



Sudhir Thapliyal

Mansuri Macbare 2012 Kindle and paperback


Jeet Thayil

Narcopolis 2011


Paul Theroux
A dead hand a crime in Calcutta 2011

Michaela Thompson
Fault tree (2013, Kindle)

Thomas Thompson

Serpentine:the true story of a serial killer's reign of terror from Europe to South Asia 2016


Siddhartha Thorat 

Operation fox-hunt 2014

Anuj Tikku

Yes sir, I killed my mom (April 18, 2022 Kindle, Reviews not great)

Assassinating Modi (July 5, 2021, Kindle not sure if it's crime fiction or political)

Sarvesh Tiwari

The last curse 2016

Amita Trasi
The color of our sky 2017


Ira Trivedi

Gumrah:11 short teen crime stories 2016


Altaf Tyrewala

Mumbai noir 2012

Ministry of hurt sentiments 2015(genre bending/Dystopian Bombay..is it crime fiction?) 

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U

Imran Usman

A yellow winged stranger-2015

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V
Sidin Vadukut

Bombay fever 2017

Ganga Bharani Vasudevan

A minute to death 2015, ebook, Pub:Half baked beans

S.Venkatesh
Kaalkoot 2018 (Treeshade books)

Akash Verma

Only the good die young. and. I am not a saint. 2020 Penguin pub

Anup Verma 

A thread of life 2007(?crime fiction/?novel)


Dominique Verma
After the deluge (Rupa pub) about Roreich the artist whose paintings are in Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore!


Mona Verma

God is a river -a story of faith 2014


Ram Vignesh

Delhi at dark 2014 Book & kindle Leadstart publishing pvt ltd

K.Vijaykumar
Veerappan Chasing the brigand 2017

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W

Shashi Warrier
Sniper 2008
Night of the Krait 2008
The homecoming 2008
Noordin's gift 2014
The girl who din't give up 2015

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Jon Wells

Poison:From steel town to the Punjab. The true story of a serial killer 2013

Jacqueline Winspear

Leaving everything most loved: A Maise Dobbs novel 2013 

X
 Is there any Indian writer whose last name starts with X... I doubt it!

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Y

Kulpreet Yadav
Catching the departed 2014

The girl who loved a pirate 2015



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Z
Carlos Ruis Zafon (Spanish writer)

The midnight palace (this could be a supernatural crime fiction for teens; it's not strictly a crime fiction book)

Hussain Zaidi

Mafia queens of Mumbai Mafia queens from the ganglands 2011 (Non fiction)
Dongri to Dubai. six decades of the Mumbai mafia-2012(non fiction)
Headley and I 2012 (non fiction)
My name is Abu Salim 2014(non fiction)
Byculla to Bangkok 2014 (non fiction)
Black Friday the true story of the Bombay bomb blasts 2014(non fiction)
Mumbai Avengers 2015. I believe this is fiction
Dangerous minds 2018 (Zaidi and Brijesh Singh) (non-fiction)
Eleventh hour  2018 (non-fiction)
Dawood's mentor 2019 (non-fiction)
The end game July 20, 2020

James W Ziskin

Bombay Monsoon Dec 6, 2022 (hardcover and kindle)(Oceanview publishing)


I WILL TRY MY BEST OT UPDATE THIS LIST AS OFTEN AS I CAN.
BUT WHEN INDIAN CRIME FICTION STARTS REACHING THE MAGNITUDE OF AMERICAN CRIME FICTION PUBLICATIONS,  I WILL STOP UPDATING.  BECAUSE, A SINGLE PERSON , ME, CANNOT MAKE A LIST OF BOOKS WHEN THE MARKET GETS FLOODED WITH SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS DAILY.


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The following is an excerpt from the internet which is pdf from 3rd chapter of the book The history of detective fiction from India and abroad. 
Shovan Tarafdar said that Aryan literature written between 1500Bc and 550 BC predates European literature.
Ranojit Chattopadhyay and Siddartha Ghosh found a parable about Sarama , a dog which helps the Gods track down the Poni-group of cattle snatching dacoits in the 10th Mandala of the Rig Veda. According to these authors, this is the first detective story in the world.

• Some books and some authors don't show up on Google.
•  Sometimes I found a book when I Googled but I had trouble finding it again for the second time on the internet.
• Names issues: I have listed by author's last names but some authors don't have last names or I am unsure if it's a last name. Example in the name Arun Kumar, Kumar looks like a last name but in south India, Arun Kumar is simply a first name with two names in it; Kumar is not a last name. Some authors have only one name on the published book. Some authors have three names and I am not sure which is the last name
• Sources to compile this list: Amazon.in, Google, Penguin India, Harper Collins India, Rediff.com. I will be searching online for Indian publishers  such as Rupa publications to add books to this list.
• The year of publication given above may not be the year it was 'first' published. It's difficult to get that information for many of the books.
• Some authors are self-published;
• Some books are available only as e-books;
• Some books are not accessible for buying as they are sold out and ?unlikely to be reprinted.
• Some books are not available outside India(even for online buyers)
•  There's a lot of  crime fiction in Indian languages, not yet translated to English. This list has only English novels.
• The number of Indian crime fiction published post 2000 is a lot more than pre 2000. (2000 is an arbitrary year chosen by me!)
• I am trying to get the date of the first edition but it's not always possible. Date of first publication gives  context to the crime. In India, change has been rapid, especially post 1980 and so too have the nature of the crimes.
• Type of authors: Authors have various professional backgrounds including Journalism, Literature, Defence personnel, Medicine, Law, Teaching, Finance, diplomacy, etc.
• Most authors in this list are Indians from India; but a few are NRIs from other countries and some like Brian Stoddart, Zac O Yeah & Tarquin Hall are foreigners writing about crime in India. 
• Most books in the list are fiction but quite a few are non-fiction, based on real-life events in India. 
• My biggest issue: I am torn between adding or not adding non-fiction crime books to my list. There are so many books covering what is crime in 'my' opinion i.e. corrupt practices in the government, courts, banks, the army, etc.  If I don't add those books, I feel I am omitting very important books of high calibre; But if I do add these books, then the list becomes huge . Also  these books are 'not entertaining' but more serious like research  and serious reading is not my aim.
• I am confused whether to add/not add to this list:(1) genre defying books such as horror-crime;(2) mythology-crime mix; (3)science fiction-crime; (4)crimes with Indians in foreign countries;(5) crimes novels written by non-Indians but set in India or Indian characters in it;(6) crime fiction for non adults like kids and teens; crime graphic novels. These books have been added or omitted from this list, depending on which way I leaned when I found the book online!

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• In India, many crimes are not even considered as crimes...dowry, wife battering, bribes, discrimination and abuse based on caste, abuse of women by families and at workplace, and so on. The majority of people in power are corrupt. There is corruption in the politicians ruling the country and also in the opposition parties. The police and judiciary are corrupt. Hell! There is  corruption in 'holy' temples too!
• With this sort of all pervasive corruption, a typical crime fiction story about a hero who solves a crime using his ingenuity simply does not cut it for the Indian reader! All Indians know who the criminals are in real life...Crimes in India don't need lots of brains to solve them. The police need will-power, honesty, incorruptibility, non-interference from their bosses and politicians  to solve crimes and do justice.
•  But the criminals often get away as they have  'connections' &  power and criminals bribe their way out . Some are not even  arrested! For example the murder of an honest and upright IAS officer in Karnataka recently was written off as a suicide by the police. People were outraged but the case was closed! Everyone is aware of which ministers were involved in the murder!

In recent years,  Indian crime fiction in English is increasing by leaps and bounds and it's  impossible to keep track of the new books being published ! I will try for a while anyway  to keep the above list updated.
I am thrilled that finally
 (a) crime fiction in English is being written in India by Indians,
(b) the authors are being paid well enough to keep writing without starving(but not as well as the authors in the west who are not only well paid but are translated into so many European languages, get paid for movie rights and so on)
 and more importantly (c)Indians can afford to buy and read crime fiction;
(d)there is an increasing interest in Indian crime fiction abroad.

In the 80s, before the IT boom in India, few English-speaking Bangaloreans could afford to buy and read books. Now thanks to the monied, English speaking and more importantly 'spending-instead-of-saving' middle and upper classes of India, the book business is booming for authors, publishers and readers. Yippee!!! 

Analyzing my feelings when I read  a handful of Indian crime fiction, I discovered that my  experience is totally different from when I read crime fiction of other countries. It's not pleasant and exciting. The more realistic the Indian crime fiction, the more shaken, depressed, angry, frustrated and  cringing as I feel. As an Indian, Indian crime is really too close home for comfort for me! Unless I develop detachment, I will not be able to enjoy Indian crime fiction!

I have to write about Indian crime magazines next...!

I visited Bangalore in May 2016. I discovered 2 new developments in Bangalore, related to books
(a)One cannot find magazines related to crime in any store...it looks like the government has banned their production and sales. I am not sure if this is only in Bangalore or all over India...if the 'respectable' shops I checked out dint have. But quite possibly the disreputable magazine shops (such as the ones selling smut on K.G.Road outside Kempegowda talkies, decades ago!) do have them hidden and sold only to known customers???
(b) The decimation of famous bookstores of Bangalore. For example, Gangarams is a skeleton of it's former glorious self; Higgins Bothams is an even bonier skeleton at least in May 2016! (Due to renovations). Sankars and Strand, two of my favorite stores have shut down completely! Sapna, which claims to be the biggest book store hardly has books ...it sells, all sorts of things of which books are just one product. Macmillan in the Shrungar complex  on M.G.Road has downed it's shutters. Prism book store in Jayanagar 4th block seems to have vanished! Premier book shop at Church street and Museum road has also vanished. I remember the several wonderful hours spent browsing in Premier, Strand, Higgins Bothams and Sankars.
It breaks my heart that these stores have vanished. I do know new stores such as Landmark and Crossword have opened in Bangalore, but not enough of them.
People not buying books  and high rents  book stores pay for their space would be two major reasons for these stores to close.  Bangalore  prides itself on it's 'booming economy', 'world class' educational institutions, an emerging middle-class who earn well and spend well...it is such a shame that decent book stores cannot flourish in this city full of empty pride!

Plu-eeze don't tell me that Bangaloreans are into e-books....the number of e-readers does not fully account for the closing of the several bookstores.

Why don't Bangaloreans buy books?  It's not because of the existence of 'fantastic' libraries for sure! The City Central libraries are pathetic! It's not because of Ebooks. Then why? three reasons I can think of is:

(1)Books are still not affordable or the book-loving Bangalorean thinks he cannot afford.

(2)Bangaloreans are cheap when it comes to buying books! They would rather spend their money on clothes, eating out, jewels, accessories and what-nots. Or save money to buy their flat or car or 'foreign' vacation.

(3)They prefer buying pirated editions in the 'other' type of book stores.

(4)Or Bangaloreans are buying online such as on Amazon.in, flipkart, etc.

(5)New distractions and new activities engage the hours which would have been devoted to reading 20 years ago...TV, internet, videogames, gym and physical activities, pubs, mall-crawling,  social media like facebook & twitter. There is also  more money to indulge in hobbies the previous generations could not afford to, such as travelling.
(6)Also many parents these days compel their children to study almost all the time and don't try to get their kids to read storybooks and comics.

If this continues, Bangalore will be nothing but a money-rich culture-poor city. We will have boorish and cock-sure 'software' engineers, et al. strutting around with money in their pockets and air in their skulls.

What I would love for Bangalore is bookstores like Barnes and Noble of USA or Chapters and Indigo of Canada! I would love to have shops with books from all over the world, comfortable corners for booklovers to browse, comfortable furniture for buyers and browsers, artfully arranged books, ambience,  silence, knowledgeable salespeople (unlike the salespersons of Sapna who had no clue about authors, books or anything related to books!).

Bookstores are disappearing all over the world. People are buying online, reading e-books or have ceased reading! I really regret this change which seems to be unstoppable.