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The Last Rose of Kashmiri by Barbara Cleverly
5★'s
I love the psycho killers and the serial murders that abound aplenty in the book world that I inhabitant so I was thinking that this one might be a bit tame for my taste. I'm happy to say that it more than lived up to my expectations in spite of the absence of the "usual suspects". This book stands out by the unique motive behind the murders of a bunch of "memsahibs" -- wives of Englishmen killed over a period of 12 years in India before it's independence. Barbara Cleverly has so cleverly plotted the deaths of the ladies to deceive the eye and appear as mere accidents or the work of an evil spirit. Scotland Yard Detective, Joe Sandilands, a young Indian police officer, and a friend of one of the murdered women believe that "something is rotten in Denmark" and set out to prove their theory that all the deaths are the work of one murderer. Suspense builds on top of suspense. I highly recommend this to any reader that loves mystery and suspense books mixed with historical annotations.
