Library Journal

Library Journal blog by Liz French about ThrillerFest IX: “We caught up with“Rebus” series author Ian Rankin right after he and a star-filled panel talked about creating iconic characters. He recommended Anita Nair’s Bangalore-set police procedural A Cut-Like...

Publishers Weekly

In this exceptional police procedural, Indian author Nair (The Better Man) adds yet another middle-aged, crisis-stricken, and world-weary detective to the contemporary mystery canon. Bangalore’s Insp. Borei Gowda is an honest man, his integrity earning him only...

The Mystery Gazette

As the month of Ramzan begins around the world, in Bangalore, India a young male heeds the words of the Goddess to cross-dress as a female. He admires his transformation into beautiful Bhuvana before leaving his home to visit the bazaars where he expects to meet true...

Peter James

I loved this book and was constantly gripped. Anita Nair’s writing in some moments has photographic qualities, in others the precision of surgeon’s scalpel; and always the great inner warmth of the human heart. Truly astounding writing. Peter James Author...

Russell James Crime Time

You may think we’ve been before, and in a way we have – but not, perhaps, in Bangalore. The weary, embattled police detective, the new recruit, the unsympathetic toady of a boss, the corruption, the serial killer … familiar as these may sound they become...

Sunday Times

Anita Nair is a feminist and highly regarded Indian novelist. A Cut-Like Wound is as startling a debut crime novel as you are likely to read this year. Set in Bangalore, it opens with the horrific murder of a young man who worked as a prostitute. The killing is...