The tree-studded city of Bengaluru, not surprisingly, is a character in the stories of three of the city’s best-loved crime authors — Harini Nagendra, Harish Vasudevan, and Unmana. Sleuthing in a saree For instance, ecologist and author Harini Nagendra’s The Bangalore Detectives Club series etches a semi-fictional history of the city, offering a peek into 1920s Bangalore. City on their …
Generally, the phrase “crime fiction” brings to mind murders and detectives of the hardboiled kind; grisly, violent killings; experienced male investigators. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels are perhaps the blueprint of cosy crime — although there was nothing really “cosy” about those murders — and Unmana has produced a superb Indian addition to the sub-genre. Dubbed “A Bibliomystery”, Chikkamma Tours …
