08-04-2021, 08:41 AM
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Prince Edward is coming to Calcutta and nothing better mess that up. Except the natives are staging protests and a friend of Surrender-Not is in charge of the peaceful protests. Meanwhile people are being killed in a most grisly fashion. Sam Wyndham finds the first victim while he is stoned out of his mind on opium and running from Section H. But there are soon two more victims and they all seem to be connected.
The mysteries are getting better but there is still a heavy handed political aspect on the back side, a way of telling just how bad the British where in India while investigating the mystery. I guess there is no light handed way to tell how bad the British were in India. I guess I don't like the main character. He's addicted to Opium. He treats his would be paramour poorly. And he's not that clever. Although he does see his way to solving the crimes in the end. But no one is brought to justice in British India.
Prince Edward is coming to Calcutta and nothing better mess that up. Except the natives are staging protests and a friend of Surrender-Not is in charge of the peaceful protests. Meanwhile people are being killed in a most grisly fashion. Sam Wyndham finds the first victim while he is stoned out of his mind on opium and running from Section H. But there are soon two more victims and they all seem to be connected.
The mysteries are getting better but there is still a heavy handed political aspect on the back side, a way of telling just how bad the British where in India while investigating the mystery. I guess there is no light handed way to tell how bad the British were in India. I guess I don't like the main character. He's addicted to Opium. He treats his would be paramour poorly. And he's not that clever. Although he does see his way to solving the crimes in the end. But no one is brought to justice in British India.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm