Coming in March 2025

No. 10 Doyers Street: A woman journalist from India becomes involved in the case of a Chinatown gangster in 1907 New York.

Early praise for No. 10 Doyers Street

  • Radha Vatsal has crafted a crackerjack mystery set in early-1900s New York City. Trailblazing journalist Archana Morley has both the strength and sensitivity to cut to the truth in this fast-paced tale that illuminates the history of Asian immigrants in Chinatown.”

    Sujata Massey
    Internationally bestselling author of The Widows of Malabar Hill 

  • [A]n immersive historical novel in which social constructions of race impact politics on a grand scale.”

    Foreword Reviews

  • Vatsal’s skill as not only a historian, but a crafter of gripping and character-driven mysteries, are in full effect...as readers are guided through the streets of a lost New York from the perspective of an Indian journalist embroiled in a real-world underworld caper. Pitch perfectly accurate and enthralling, I was rapt until the last page.”

    Alex Segura
    Bestselling and acclaimed author of Secret Identity and Alter Ego

  • Radha Vatsal has impressed me with her precise and astute observations and rich detail for some time, and her upcoming book shows Vatsal at the top of her game.”

    CrimeReads
    Historical Fiction to Check Out in 2025

  • [A]n engrossing read about the erasure of people and their homes and culture in the name of so-called progress.”

    Historical Novel Society

Radha Vatsal, Author & Essayist

Portrait by Juliette Conroy

Radha Vatsal is the author of No. 10 Doyers Street (coming March 2025), and the Kitty Weeks mystery novels set in World War I-era New York.

Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The LA Review of Books, CrimeReads, and more.

Overlooked No More: Hansa Mehta, Who Fought for Women’s Equality in India and Beyond

Recently published in The New York Times

“Overlooked No More: Hansa Mehta, Who Fought for Women’s Equality in India and Beyond” by Radha Vatsal

Attend upcoming appearances or see and hear Radha Vatsal discuss her books and essays in podcast, radio, or TV interviews.

CBC’s IDEAS

Coming soon:

Radha discusses her work in an interview on CBC’s IDEAS.

A Front Page Affair by Radha Vatsal

Experience World War I-era New York with reporter-turned-investigator, Kitty Weeks.