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A review by marigold_bookshelf
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
4.0
I discovered Abir Mukherjee, a British-born author of Indian parents, serendipitously whilst browsing the Indian section at the wonderful Daunt Bookshop in Marylebone, London. Chatting to a young Indian Lady, I recommended Neel Mukherjee to her and she pointed me to Abir Mukherjee.
A Rising Man is a crime novel set in Calcutta in 1919, during the Raj. Detective Captain Sam Wyndham, recently arrived from Britain with an opium addiction following his experience on the western front in WWI, is assigned to resolve the murder of a high ranking British official. He sets out to do so with his assistant, the native but Cambridge University educated Sergeant Banerjee.
It was an easy but thoroughly enjoyable read, difficult to put down. I am not usually drawn to crime fiction, but I am unashamedly tempted to read the rest of the books in the Captain Wyndham series.
A Rising Man is a crime novel set in Calcutta in 1919, during the Raj. Detective Captain Sam Wyndham, recently arrived from Britain with an opium addiction following his experience on the western front in WWI, is assigned to resolve the murder of a high ranking British official. He sets out to do so with his assistant, the native but Cambridge University educated Sergeant Banerjee.
It was an easy but thoroughly enjoyable read, difficult to put down. I am not usually drawn to crime fiction, but I am unashamedly tempted to read the rest of the books in the Captain Wyndham series.