Though it is hard to exactly put our finger on, but there is something that crime writing often stirs up in us: curiosity, exasperation, shock, anger, despair, admiration, jubilation and much more. And it is the prospect of stirring-and-sitting up which usually draws most of us towards the genre(s).

Crime Writing Across the Globe
Nabanipa Bhattacharjee
THE BODY BY THE SHORE: A NOVEL by By Tabish Khair HarperCollins Publishers, Gurugram, India, 2022, 322 pp., INR 399.00
DISAPPEARANCE IN FIJI by By Nilima Rao Zaffre, London, 2023, 280 pp., 399.00
MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT: A NOVELby By Nina Simon William Morrow, New York, 2023, 357 pp., 499.00