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Pam, looking forward to joining you later in March. I own a copy of this & have wanted to read it for awhile. But because of other book club commitments I won’t be able to start reading until then. Looking forward to your thoughts on this.Enjoy!
I am about half way in, pretty ridiculous so far. A cop is following a suspect with an elephant in tow. It will draw too much attention on Indian streets where people hardly have any sense of personal boundaries. That is just one example that confirms Khan does not really has any inkling to how India works, Abir Mukherjee's Sam Wyndham series captured India much better.
Inspector Ghote series by H.R.F.Keating too are a great read.
I really enjoyed this book, so much so that I have added the next book to my wishlist.
im at 30%mark and quite bored.I feel as though Im reading a 70s Bollywood drama. melodramatic and boring.
Leena is right, it feels like it has a very cliched, melodramatic view of India and is trying to pass itself of as authentic. Like showing all Texans have an extended drawl or carry a mini arsenal on them when they grocery shopping.
Borderline racist with negative stereotyping and a stupid mystery. Complete waste of time. It has zero understanding of Indian culture. I am not surprised the only people who think it did the setting justice has no idea of how the country works. Rating - 1/5My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Patrick wrote: "I enjoyed this novel a great deal, but I read it more as a cozy than a realistic police drama. It shared many characteristics of a typical cozy, but instead of a cat or a dog, there was literally a..."I also thought it would have worked much better as a cozy mystery but it was plagued by tonal inconsistencies, a gritty police procedural with a magic elephant. Those two different elements never blended together. Just curious you consider a mystery dealing with child abuse cozy? I hardly read cozies but is raping young boys an usual cozy mystery subject?
Aditya - good point. It's not a cozy. There were some funny scenes that I enjoyed.
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Summary
On the day he retires, Inspector Ashwin Chopra inherits two unexpected mysteries.
The first is the case of a drowned boy, whose suspicious death no one seems to want solved. And the second is a baby elephant. As his search for clues takes him across the teeming city of Mumbai, from its grand high rises to its sprawling slums and deep into its murky underworld, Chopra begins to suspect that there may be a great deal more to both his last case and his new ward than he thought. And he soon learns that when the going gets tough, a determined elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs...