{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks-and-authors.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fcosy-delhi-crime-T0OGtQ3n","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Cosy Delhi crime","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ae6533df-095e-4fef-b7ef-69ea44f76a8c/aabe5de7-294b-4f52-b5f8-758575dd3e1f/ep-20264.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"\"I'm a big fan of a very specific genre of crime novels, which is the Golden Age novels, the Agatha Christies and the GK Chestertons, the novels of the 1940s and '50s. I don't get to read those types of books any more, where at the heart of the book is a very classic murder mystery, a whodunnit. You're not really that concerned about realism; it's not very gritty; there's not a lot of murders that are very unpleasant. Someone just drops dead and everyone's concerned about who's done it. I wanted to write a book like that. These days, the kind of crime that's being written — there's a lot of police procedurals; there's a lot of realistic crime. I wanted to veer away from all of that. There's so much going on that's unpleasant that people really like to have a break from all of that. You know, it's nice to worry about something as frothy as a murder mystery that you can curl up with over a cup of coffee!\" - Samyukta Bhowmick, author, A Fatal Distraction, talks to Manjula Narayan about her cosy crime novel set in Delhi."}