merixcil 's review for:

A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

3.0

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This was a well done crime thriller, but what makes it interesting is that it's a story about a white British man in the Raj written by a British person of Indian descent. And I'm not going to pretend that that makes it unique but by virtue of being crime fiction it has scope to critique the power structures of justice in Calcutta at the time with a relatively full understanding of where all parties were coming from - for better or worse. Honestly I wound up more interested in the politics of it all than the crime