Crime fiction was long considered unsuitable for local production in India or the Global South (Meyer, Glocalizing 1). However, a radical change has been increasingly evident in recent years, where a surge in the production of Indian crime fiction has been observed and Indian writers in English have taken up the genre with an unprecedented enthusiasm. Indian English crime writers are certainly influenced by their American and European counterparts, but they appropriate the genre to suit the local Indian contexts. This trait is prominently evident in the increasing presence of women writers who often employ female detectives to investigate crimes against women. This chapter will study two Indian crime fiction series by women writers which provide a corpus to assess how the generic conventions have been modified to accommodate a female detective and to root these novels in an Indian milieu. Itwill discuss how these women detectives can be seen as a reflection of the uninhibited independent twenty-first century Indian woman and as Maitreyee Chaudhuri suggests a “celebration of the new-found ‘self’ of Indian women” (152). It will also discuss how these works provide a space for creating new roles for women while also illustrating a wide spectrum of female experiences. Lastly, this chapter will try to explore these works in the context of India’s economic growth and how they affectmand are affected by India’s publishing industry.