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A who-done-it set in the last years of the Raj, but written by a post-Colonial era author? Yes, please! Sign me up!
Note: I don’t normally review series books due to spoilers, but this is the first book in the series.
The Story and My Thoughts
Set in the mid-to-late 1930s in Colonial Ceylon [today’s Sri Lanka] this book introduces Inspector Shanti de Silva who is mixed race and his British wife, Jane–a former governess. A Pukka Sahib type tea planter (I met one such in real life in Malaw ...more
A who-done-it set in the last years of the Raj, but written by a post-Colonial era author? Yes, please! Sign me up!
Note: I don’t normally review series books due to spoilers, but this is the first book in the series.
The Story and My Thoughts
Set in the mid-to-late 1930s in Colonial Ceylon [today’s Sri Lanka] this book introduces Inspector Shanti de Silva who is mixed race and his British wife, Jane–a former governess. A Pukka Sahib type tea planter (I met one such in real life in Malaw ...more
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Kirsten Barber
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