By Anu Kumar; Grade: B I love good mystery novels. I love the anticipation, I love the thrill, and I love feeling that says I’m right there and a witness to what’s happening. So when I was offered It Takes a Murder, I instantly said...

A failed writer and libertine living in NYC, Niral Solanke moves from Bushwick to his parent's house in Queens, where he expects to make amends with a Hindu religious organization called the Brotherhood. But when a childhood friend commits suicide, Niral is thrust into a...

By Gerald Seymour. Grade: A  Gerald Seymour, writer of twenty eight books, was a reporter at ITN (Independent Television News) for fifteen years and had expertise in covering crime and terrorism. After covering many sensitive topics, such as the Great Train Robbery, Munich Massacre and...

By Lee Child. Jack Reacher #16. Grade: A All the Reacher novels are in chronological order, but The Affair is a prequel of sorts. It tells us why Reacher left the army, and fills in that particular gap in his resume. March 1997. A woman...

By Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch #9. Grade: B Michael Connelly writes about crime fiction and detective mysteries and has innumerable fans across the globe, including Bill Clinton! The Lost Light takes that same theme and was slated as one of the Best Books of 2003...

Michael Connelly, a former journalist, is a cult author of crime novels. He is master of mixing realistic details of police work and legal procedures with the private feelings of police officials and personal lives of his protagonists. Back in 2009 I read The Closure...

By David Hewson. Grade B+. This happens to be my first hefty crime thriller. Through the dark wood where the dead trees give no shelter Nanna Birk Larsen runs … There is a bright monocular eye that follows, like a hunter after a wounded deer....

By David baldacci.  Grade A This is the first time that I have gotten my hands on something written by David Baldacci, and now I regret not having read anything by him before. As is often the case, I try to guess the plot by...

By Orhan Pamuk. Grade: A+ My name is red is a wonderful book on passion, art, murder and infatuation. It has strong melancholic undercurrents, but above all, it hovers overhead as a master crime novel. The story telling finesse of Orhan Pamuk is unquestionable with...