India
The subcontinent of India has produced few major breakthroughs into Western culture, but we’re pleased to see some cozy mysteries beginning to appear.
The Aunty Millennial Mysteries (Andaleeb Wajid)
The Detective Maya Mysteries (Noah Alexander) Maya wants to become a detective. But there is a problem…This is 1878 and she is a woman. Maya works in the Bombay Detective Agency but strictly as a clerk. The chief of the agency is convinced that detective work is solely the domain of men and would not consent to a woman solving cases.
The Perveen Mistry Mysteries (Sujata Massey) Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father’s law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a legal education from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes women’s legal rights especially important to her.
The Stellar Investigations Mysteries (Manjiri Prabhu)
The Tara Sen Mysteries (Dola Basu Singh) After being cheated out of her business by her ex-fiancé, Tara Sen moves back home with her golden retriever Sherlock. When she’s chosen to compete on India’s most famous reality TV show Top Baker, she knows winning the bake-off and the prize money can help reopen her late mother’s bakery.
The Temple Hill Mysteries (Meeti Shroff-Shah) Among the rarefied circles of Mumbai’s posh Temple Hill, there is nothing more tragic than the loss of face — not even loss of life. Radhi returns home to Mumbai to lick her wounds after a failed relationship and a bout of writer’s block, but she soon gets caught up in the tangled mystery surrounding the death of her best friend’s father.
The Viral Vlogger Mysteries (Noah Alexander) Anu Shankar has decided to start over. It’s kind of hard for a 35-year-old who is stone broke and has no particular talents, but she has a plan. Or at least she thinks she has. Anu has decided to move to a small Indian town and start a cooking channel on YouTube.
The Vish Puri Mysteries (Tarquin Hall) Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers.