1. Reading Aloud
(personalities/personalities)

...icky. I managed to get hold of the audio book of Martin Cruz Smith's Polar Star. I was eager to re-listen a thriller I loved. The opening passages went well but once the narrator began to speak in var...

2. BOOK REVIEW: Dead On Time
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... insipid writing, poor articulation and monologues on British political history. Far from being a political thriller, Dead On Time is an economist’s poor attempt at writing fiction. It lacks rob...

3. BOOK REVIEW: Salim Must Die
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Salim Must Die; By Mukul Deva; HarperCollins Pages: 417; Price:  Rs 225 Buy Borrow Avoid The storyline of Mukul Deva’s Salim Must Die — sequel to the bestseller Lashkar

4. BOOK REVIEW: The Paris Enigma
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The Paris Enigma By Pablo De Santis; HarperCollins Pages: 324; Price: Rs 295 Buy Borrow Avoid The Paris Enigma by Pablo De Santis is a book that was originally written in Spanish and has

5. Arvind Thakur, NIIT
(reading_room/reading_room)

...the time schooling was over my reading included a wide variety of books from Perry Mason, Agatha Cristie to thrillers by James Hadley Chase. Your book shelf consists of.... My bookshelf is dot...

6. Into The Lion's Den
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...rd Grant; Hachette India; Pages: 285; Price: Rs: 595 Buy Borrow Avoid Bandit Roads reads like a thriller and has one racing to get to the end. The opening line says, ‘So this is what...

7. 'Indians Need To Be Unsentimental'
(personalities/personalities)

... Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics (LSE), has entered the world of thriller and fiction. Simply put, the novel is a day in the life of Harry White, Britain&rs...

8. Go Back To Your Kitchen Garden
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... faced from food corporations who denied access to his crew. In fact, it all sounds just like a Robin Cook thriller — but far more horrific because some of these corporations are names we all ...

9. Vanity Unfair
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The Winner Stands Alone; By Paulo Coelho; HarperCollins India Pages: 325; Price: Rs 325 Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa Buy Borrow Avoid Coelho’s latest offering

10. Dan Brown's New Book In September
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...at day for readers and booksellers,” said Mehta. “The Lost Symbol is a brilliant and compelling thriller. Dan Brown’s prodigious talent for storytelling, infused with history, codes ...

11. Kubu Comes Calling
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...es, who has last been heard, to be coming as a guest at this year’s Kolkata Book Fair.   In thrillers you cannot reveal much but what is exciting is the locale which becomes almost lik...

12. The Simple Art of (Literary) Murder
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Pradeep Sebastian on why the literary thriller is a double treat for book loversWhen I pick a thriller to read, my choice is made very simple: it is always, always a literary thriller. These rather bo

13. Desi Pulp At Its Best
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...uy Borrow Avoid This book grips you with intense nostalgia — for the good ol' James Hadley Chase thrillers, which sent you on an adrenalin-raising chase with gangster protagonists in tales ...

14. Ajay Trehan, AuthBridge Research Services
(reading_room/reading_room)

...ys, graduating thereafter to Alistair Maclean. Your book shelf consists of.... Management books and thrillers. Where do you shop for books? I like to shop for books in bookstores. My f...

15. Turn The Key, Find God
(personalities/personalities)

Pradeep Sebastian on the proliferation of religious conspiracy thrillers and why we like themBetween The Da Vinci Code and its long and much awaited follow up The Solomon Key there have been dozens of

16. The God Of All Things
(personalities/personalities)

... Although Deva's writings span a various genres, his most widely acclaimed book has been Lashkar, an action thriller based on the 2005 blasts in Sarojini Nagar in New Delhi. And his latest offering is...

17. K.A. Parameswaran, Ebony Gautier
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...? I am not a very discerning reader. I usually go by the recommendations of my friends. I used to favour thrillers once upon a time but today I am more open to books across genres. Have you wr...

18. Richard and Judy's Book Club Best Reads Of 2009
(news_section/news_section)

... the Daily Telegraph has also been shortlisted. The Brutal Art, written by Jesse Kellerman, the son of thriller writers Faye and Jonathan Kellerman also made it to the 2009 list along with The 19...

19. Queries Of An Inquisitive Diplomat
(personalities/personalities)

...ook at the moment? My second novel Six Suspects came out in August this year and is again a ‘social thriller’ inspired by some of the pressing issues of the day. It is my attempt to capt...

20. Srishti Sofat, InfoSpace India
(reading_room/reading_room)

...ch by John Battelle What kind of books would you normally buy while travelling? Suspense books or a thriller. Books by Michael Connelly and John Grisham. Have you written any books? If no...

21. Crime Thriller At Its Best
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A political activist, photographer and an editor, Stieg Larsson brings together a crime thriller combined with investigative journalism in the first of the Millennium trilogy The Girl With The Dragon

22. Why I didn’t like Devil May Care
(personalities/personalities)

...ulks’ James Bond story is hardly the worst Bond novel ever written. Two, it is not a particularly bad thriller either – I have read many which are infinitely worse. Having said that, I mus...

23. Crime Thriller At Its Best
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A political activist, photographer and an editor, Stieg Larsson brings together a crime thriller combined with investigative journalism in the first of the Millennium trilogy The Girl With The Dragon

24. Crime Thriller At Its Best
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