Mumbai Confidential Book 1: Good Cop, Bad Cop by Saurav Mohapatra and Vivek Shinde is a hard-boiled graphic novel set in Mumbai (available April 23, 2013). Hard-boiled crime fiction the world over, whether it’s set in Los Angeles or Mumbai, Moscow or Tokyo, poses the same basic question to the… Read more
Talk about a gag order! A village in India has prohibited the use of cell phones…by women. The Times of India recently reported that the local municipality near the city of Patna in northern India will administer of fine of 2,000 rupees (about $37) on every married woman who is… Read more
Still wrapped in my dilemma over whether Indians really speak as they do in Tarquin Hall’s Vish Puri novels (The Case of the Missing Servant and The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing), I asked some Indian friends if, as I suspected, the peculiar syntax of dialog such as… Read more
I like my cozies atmospheric and literate, and right now the prolific Alexander McCall Smith, who writes the “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” books along with other series, is my benchmark cozy author. I’m looking for a backup. The Man Who Died Laughing, is only Tarquin Hall’s second Vish Puri novel,… Read more
