Thriller

The author of the popular Mahabharata Quest series, Christopher C. Doyle, has a new offering for his fans -- The Pataala Prophecy Son of Bhrigu. The book was published last week and much like Doyle's other works it promises adventure, fantasy, and mystery. Doyle, who has a knack for weaving together mystery and mythology says that in Pataala Prophecy he has "tried to connect the ancient texts of India to our modern lives, not in a philosophical manner or lecture based way but in a more realistic form." Pataala…

In what is going to mark the debut of former US President Bill Clinton as a fiction writer, he has teamed up with James Patterson and their thriller, rich in "information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know" will be released globally on Monday (June 4). The much anticipated novel is titled The President is Missing and is being published by Penguin Random House. "Yes, The President is Missing is fiction -- it's a thriller -- but James Patterson and I have come up with three of the most frightening…

Editor's note: Here is an excerpt from Ravi Subramanian’s latest book, Don’t Tell The Governor. Subramanian, who mostly pens stories about the financial world, has already written nine books. In this book he tells the fictional story of a character named Aditya Kesavan, who becomes the newest chief of RBI and deals with dangerous challenges as he copes with his new job and the finance ministry of India. Subramanian has previously won the Economist Crossword Book Award for three years in a row as well as the Golden Quill…

Editor’s note: New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi makes her debut as a fiction writer with her latest book, The New Delhi Conspiracy. Co-authored by Lekhi and Krishna Kumar, the book, a political thriller, was launched on Friday by BJP MP JP Nadda at NCUI Auditorium & Convention Centre, New Delhi. The book is a work of fiction and claims to be adventurous and intriguing and begins with the death of a scientist, who warns a woman politician in New Delhi about the impending danger to the life of Raghav Mohan, the…

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein — now streaming on Netflix — has an inherent promising black comedy setup at its core. In it, a powerful politician's doe-eyed daughter Purva Awasthi (Anchal Singh, from Undekhi) has had her eyes on the accountant's veritable small-fry son Vikrant “Vicky” Singh Chauhan (Tahir Raj Bhasin, from Chhichhore) since they were kids at school. (Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein's premise would be creepy on several levels if you were to gender flip the whole thing. But that's a different debate.) And because Vikrant…