Detection diary

Although the book contains interesting, less known or occasionally shocking revelations, the reader is likely to demand better returns for labouring through 614 pages of familiar phases

For the characters and plots it throws up, blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, the Mumbai crime world is almost a publishing genre in itself. So, when one of the city’s most decorated police officers writes a memoir, you’d think it would be worth a read. But the celebrity status ex-IPS officer Rakesh Maria enjoys also means that his career is well documented. That leaves his memoir struggling to justify a title such as Let Me Say It Now. 

Although the book contains interesting, less known or occasionally shocking revelations, the reader is likely to demand better returns for labouring