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wendoxford 's review for:
A Rising Man
by Abir Mukherjee
Loved this...colonial India, hints of end of empire, crime and great personalities. Seems a good combo to me.
At first I struggled with the ruling class and natives trope. Nonetheless, this is how the British ruled, with the assumption of superiority laced with bigotry, however abhorrent it feels. Captain Sam Wyndham, is parachuted (not literally) into Calcutta to head up a new post in the police force, it is 1919. He is quickly thrown into investigating the murder of a senior official in the administration and has to both make sense of the killing and find the assassin whilst unravelling the idiosyncrasies of the morally corrupt bureaucracy.
I found it both pacey and atmospheric and am left wanting more. Good job this is the first in the series.
At first I struggled with the ruling class and natives trope. Nonetheless, this is how the British ruled, with the assumption of superiority laced with bigotry, however abhorrent it feels. Captain Sam Wyndham, is parachuted (not literally) into Calcutta to head up a new post in the police force, it is 1919. He is quickly thrown into investigating the murder of a senior official in the administration and has to both make sense of the killing and find the assassin whilst unravelling the idiosyncrasies of the morally corrupt bureaucracy.
I found it both pacey and atmospheric and am left wanting more. Good job this is the first in the series.