What a delight it is to meet up again with Captain Sam Wyndham of the Calcutta CID and his Sergeant and friend, Surrender-Not Banerjee. There are 2 story lines in “Death in the East”, going back and forth between London in 1905 and Assam in 1922. 1905 forms the back-story …
Reading Abir Mukherjee’s “A Necessary Evil” was a fine balancing act between dying to know what happened next, and dreading the approaching end of the book. This absolute cracker of a novel is a fine and worthy successor to Mr. Mukherjee’s first novel “A Rising Man“, and it is with …
What a fabulous book “A Rising Man” is. And what a prodigiously talented writer Mr. Mukherjee is. A murder mystery set in Calcutta in 1919, this is an absorbing page-turner from the very word go. From the first moment you meet the narrator, Captain Sam Wyndham and his endearing deputy, …
Disclaimer – if indeed there is a need for one: I was sent this book by the publishers, and asked to review it. That’s it ! This début novel is an interesting read, which kept me involved until the end, as I read on with growing interest, keen to find …
This week, New Delhi officially turned 100 years old. On 12 December 1911, at the Delhi Durbar, in front of maharajahs, rajahs, princes, and thousands of British and Indian citizens, King George V made an announcement that would have major repercussions for India. The capital city was going to be …
Even if I describe this book as “lush” and “sensuous” and every other such adjective, I am still not sure whether this would fully convey the evocative, over-powering descriptions of the heat and colour and humidity and darkness of the Amazon, the main backdrop against which this wonderful story unfolds. …
