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Death in the Andamans

M.M. Kaye

Start date: December 5, 2025

Finish date: January 4, 2026

Discussion leader: Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂

Why we're reading this: Continuing with this groups read of Ms. Kaye's Death in Books.
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[close] Continuing with this groups read of Ms. Kaye's Death in Books.
Please note this book is also available as a three-in-one In the House of Shade

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Jul 21, 2024 Tuesdayschild rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio, 2024-read, 2024-audio

Audiobook narrated by Soneela Nankani.
The setting for this suspense murderer/ romance story sounded amazing, a place I would love to visit, the story was just an okay one for me. I wasn’t sure afterwards if this was to do with the narrator - she often has Copper and Val sounding like the same person - or that I really was not invested in any of the characters.
A decent enough, no extra effort required, vintage era suspense mystery to listen to while unwell, so I’m gifting it three stars.

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Sep 28, 2017 Evelyn Hill rated it really liked it

Location, location, location.

I have to confess: this is not my favorite book by M.M. Kaye. (The Far Pavilions was fantastic.)
This was the first book she wrote, and it shows. The characters were straight out of clicheville and the romance was pretty much by-the-book, as it were.
But the location! She did a fabulous job of making me feel as if I were there, and she picked a wonderful location. Not just the islands, but the house itself, with all its mysterious carvings and dark corners of spooky ro ...more

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