2024: The best Crime Fiction Reads of the Year

 It's that time of the year where we reminisce about the best and the worst of the year gone by. This is my year ended list of the year's best thriller reads of the year gone by .(Some of the books in this list released in the previous years, it's just that...

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Book Review : My Lovely Wife, Samantha Downing

 My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing was a best seller when it released a couple of years back. This one is supposed to be a domestic suspense thriller with a twist (if the endorsement on it's cover is anything to go by!).Millicent and her husband are married...

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Book Review: Yellow Face by R.F Kuang

 Yellow Face by R.F Kuang, the latest international best-seller is an interesting novel which tells the story of Juniper Song(June Hayward), a white author who steals and rewrites an unpublished Novel by her deceased Asian- American Author friend , to become...

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Book Review: Thiruvananthapuram Crime Kadhakal by Adarsh Madhavankutty

 Thiruvananthapuram Crime Kadhakal ‘ by Adarsh Madhavankutty is an anthology of eight crime stories which are set in Thiruvananthapuram district. The stories feature Manudev, a rookie Police informer, who helps the investigating officers in unsolved cases.As...

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Book Review:The Coworker by Freida Mcfadden

 The Co-worker by Freida Mcfadden is the kind of book that can be read in one sitting.I devoured this fast paced thriller during a two hour long flight and I must say confess that I enjoyed reading this one.Natalie and Dawn are coworkers in Vixed, an MNC...

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Book Review: The Teacher by Freida Mcfadden

 It’s Sunday again and I picked up yet another Freida Mcfadden.‘The Teacher’ is the author’s first release of the year and like her previous works , this one is also an edge-of-the-seat popcorn thriller. Eve Bennett is the Maths teacher at the local high...

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Book Review: 1980 by Anver Abdulla

 Though Anver Abdulla is an accomplished name in Malayalam Detective fiction (he has given us some genuinely memorable detective Novels like Compartment and Onnaam Saakshi Sethuramaiyyer), not many know that he is also a screenwriter and Director. The writer’s...

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Book Review: Sakhaavu by T.Padmanabhan

 Prakaasham Parathunna Penkutty was one of the first short stories in Malayalam I read in my lifetime. If my memory is correct, the story was there in the Malayalam curriculum of Kerala State Syllabus in sixth or seventh grade. T Padmanaabhan’s Sakhaavu, published by Mathrubhumi Books, is the compilation of his ten latest short stories. The book...

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The Ten Notable Books of 2022

  It's that time of the year when everyone is scribbling down their year-ender lists, and not wanting to be left too far behind, out of the 80-odd books read in the past year, I also managed to compile my list of the best of the year gone by. (Opinions,...

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Book Review: Adulting by Neharika Gupta

 There was a time when I used to relish escapist urban chick lit works by Indian Authors. The likes of Advaita Kala, Ahmed Faiyas, and Durjoy Dutta came to my rescue whenever I used to suffer from reader's block. For that matter, I had even enjoyed the then-teen...

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Book Review: Hello Mike Testing by Suneesh Varanaad

 Hello, Mike Testing (HMT) by the playwright-turned-screenwriter Suneesh Varanaad is a compilation of humourous stories told in the backdrop of stage programs. The book is almost in the same zone as Ramesh Pisharady’s recently released Chiri Puranda Jeevithangal (Suneesh has incidentally thanked Pisharady in the preface for telling...

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Book Review: A.K by Amith Kumar

 Despite Financial Thrillers being a sensation globally, not many authors from India have tried this exciting sub-genre. Though Ravi Subramanian and Ashwin Sanghi are notable exceptions, it is ironic that not many present-day authors have attempted anything...

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Book Review: Branthimaan by Manoj Bharathi

 Manoj Bharati’s ‘Branthimaan’ is a thriller that starts interestingly but succumbs to a pile of cliches once it reaches its climax. The writing is pretty solid and set in the backdrop of the competitive world of the Corporate Media & Malayalam Film Industry....

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Book Review: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

 Though this one had been on my wishlist for quite a long time, I had almost refrained from picking it up as I had almost thought this one was a parody novel. The title sounded quite similar to another International Best Seller (The Family Upstairs- Lisa Jewell),...

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Book Review: Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

 Alice Feeney's Rock Paper Scissors is one of the few genuine thrillers I have read for a long time. Adam and Amelia are spending the weekend in the Scottish Highlands. Adam is a successful screenwriter, and Amelia is his wife. The remote location is perfect...

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Book Review: Harlan Coben's Win

 Harlan Coben's runaway success was with the Myron Bolitar Series, which first came out in the mid-nineties. Myron Bolitar, the handsome former Basket Ball Player and superstar sports agent, is now 11 books old. Bolitar's partner and accomplice, Windsor Horne...

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Ultrashort Book Review: Death of the Eyes by Pallichal Rajamohanan

 This one is a classic case of gimmicks spoiling the readability of a book. This is a thriller about a girl getting abducted , the investigation that ensues, and what happens eventually. But with a bland narrative, plastic characters, and a gimmicky find...

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Book Review: The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

 When your previous work is a Global Best Seller, you are likely to get confused when you are about to start with your follow-up Novel. On the one hand, there will be tremendous pressure to churn out something similar to your previous work so that Your fans...

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പുസ്തക പരിചയം : പ്ലാനറ്റ് നയൻ -മായാ കിരൺ

 മായാ കിരൺ എഴുതി ഡി .സി .ബുക്ക്സ് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച പ്ലാനറ്റ് നയൻ സ്‌പേസ് ഫിക്ഷൻ എന്ന ഗണത്തിൽ പെടുത്താവുന്ന പുസ്തകമാണ് . അത് കൊണ്ട് തന്നെ എഴുത്തുകാരിയുടെ മുൻ പുസ്തകവുമായി താരതമ്യപ്പെടുത്താതെ വായനയ്‌ക്കെടുക്കുന്നതാവും അഭികാമ്യം എന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു . ലളിതമായ ഭാഷ...

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പുസ്തക പരിചയം : ചിരി പുരണ്ട ജീവിതങ്ങൾ -രമേഷ് പിഷാരടി

 മലയാളത്തിൽ ഹാസ സാഹിത്യത്തിന് പുഷ്കര കാലമാണെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു . പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന , ചെറു ചിരിയെങ്കിലും സമ്മാനിക്കുന്ന മികച്ച പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ അടുത്ത കാലത്തായി മലയാളത്തിൽ സംഭവിച്ചു . ഒരു പക്ഷെ ലൈബ്രറി കൌൺസിൽ മേളയോട് അനുബന്ധിച്ചു , പെൻഡിങ് നിന്നിരുന്ന പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ...

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