Waterstones Death in the East
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Description: Shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021. Winner of the CWA Sapere Historical Dagger 2020. Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2020. Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. When Bessie Drummond, an old flame of Sam Wyndham's, is attacked in the street, he is determined to get to the bottom of it. But the next day, Bessie is found dead in her room and Wyndham soon finds himself caught up in her murder investigation. The case will cost the young constable more than he ever imagined. 1922, India. Leaving Calcutta, Wyndham heads for the hills of Assam, ready to put his opium addiction behind him. But when he arrives, he sees a ghost from his life in London - a man thought to be long dead, a man Wyndham hoped he would never see again. Wyndham knows he must call his friend and colleague Sergeant Banerjee for help. He is certain that this figure from his past can only be after one thing: revenge. Waterstones Death in the East - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781784708535
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ISBN: 9781784708535
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Rating: 5
Review: The author is excellent at creating a picture of India at the time as well as an excellent crime mystery
Author: Janice Staines
Rating: 4
Review: This is the fourth in the Sam Wyndham series of books. It differs from the previous three, in that we get to know a little of Sam’s early career in the police force, as well as catch up with him in India. There are two interconnected murders weaving their way through the book - one in Whitechapel, east London and the other in Jatinga, Assam - seventeen years later. I found the constant switching between the two places and dates quite irritating at first, until I realised how necessary and important this was to progressing the story. The characters, as usual, are well painted by the author with the usual mix of privilege and entitlement of the Europeans and the resigned subservience of the native Indians. These are bolstered, this time, by the addition of the racially mixed cast of immigrants central to the east end plot. Both murders are centred around bodies discovered in rooms where the doors have been locked from the inside and with no other apparent ways of entry or exit. Sam, and later Surrender-not, have to exercise their investigative skills to unpick what really happened to the victims. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, although I was a little disappointed that Surrender-not did not feature until, probably, the last quarter. Mind you, when he did finally arrive, it was a more confident and self -assured version of him that we saw - which promises well for the next book. I did manage to guess who the murderer was and, indeed, their weapon of choice. However, there were still lots of shocks and surprises along the way and a certain sense of satisfaction with the ending.
