“I had the nagging sense that we were missing out on the best of Indian detective fiction.”- Tarun K. Saint (Editor of The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Tarun K. Saint, editor of The Hachette Book of Indian Detective Fiction (Published by Hachette India, 2024).
Tarun K. Saint is an independent scholar and writer who is the author of Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction. He edited Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer and The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Volume 1&2. He co-edited Translating Partition, Looking Back: India’s Partition, 70 Years On and the bilingual science fiction anthology Avatar: Indian Science Fiction.
About the Book
The professionals meet the amateurs in this first–ever anthology of Indian detective fiction.
Volume 1
An elite squad detective from the future travels back in time to hunt down a time escapee.
Across the city of Tokyo, liquids are turning blue, and elsewhere a Tamil actress is kidnapped.
The gruesome murder of an adult industry star spirals into a web of deceit and leads to a bizarre revelation.
A journalist races against time to find the missing link between the deaths of a daily soap actress, a classical vocalist and a famous painter.
And more…
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