Fourteen writers, young and established, male and female, gay and straight, use the devices of crime fiction and film noir to provide gripping, incisive and alternative perspectives on this city where people wake up to news stories every day about rape and murder, incest and corruption, mindless road rage and sudden political flare-ups what they uncover is a chilling, often sordid and sometimes sensuous layer of life that surprises, shocks and amuses at the same timeallan sealy, omair ahmed, radhika jha, hartosh singh bal, siddharth chowdhury, ruchir joshi, meera nair, nalinaksha bhattacharya, mohan sikka, palash krishna mehrotra, tabish khair, uday prakash, manjula padmanabhan and hirsh sawhney