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Happy to find the first two installments of this new-to-me mystery series at the library. I love a troubled main character, and Sam Wyndham fits the bill. The post WWI India setting is really well-done. I enjoyed reading that Mukherjee set the books then/there because it was a period he was interested in exploring more.
1919 Calcutta. Colonialism. Opium. First in series.
Interesting police mystery taking place in India shortly after the First World War
This book is set in 1919 India where the British rule but the Indian people are becoming more insistent about independence. Wyndham is a flawed detective (like so many others, particularly those who served in WWI) his problem being post-war injury opium addiction. The tension between the British and the Indians forms a good deal of the plot and it’s interesting to note that some of the revolutionaries are turning toward nonviolence.
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