ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses how narrative strategies of crime fiction can connect the local to the global and the individual to the collective and the environment, thereby emphasising human accountability in climate change and environmental destruction. It examines the novel The Butterfly Effect (2018) written by Rajat Chaudhuri, which attempts to trace the complex web of human actions and factors that cause a worldwide ecological disaster and lead to dystopian consequences in the future, especially in more environmentally vulnerable regions such as major parts of Asia. The chapter focuses on the ways in which the functions and purpose of the detective figure are significantly expanded and reworked in such a narrative of environmental transgression and injustice.
