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Midnight at Malabar House: Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger and Nominated for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year (The Malabar House Series)

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I enjoyed following Persis’ investigation, and getting to know her a bit, and learn more about this fascinating and painful time in Indian history. But there is no happily ever after for anyone after months of unbelievably savage bloodshed with thousands of innocent civilians slaughtered for religious sectarian reasons -- and sometimes for hidden wealth. As I’d already reviewed ‘Midnight at Malabar House’ on this blog – above is a copy of my previous review – as a bonus, I thought I’d suggest a few other books that you’d like if ‘Midnight at Malabar House’ sounds like your kind of thing!

Midnight at Malabar House’ by Vaseem Khan – and other ideas! ‘Midnight at Malabar House’ by Vaseem Khan – and other ideas!

When the author has to resort to "it was at the back of her mind, but it was elusive" three times in a row when, you, the reader makes the connect almost instantly - the mystery has lost it's flavor. Yet, her passionate and driven attitude seems to have only antagonized her peers who are quick to dismiss her on the basis of her gender and her age. Photograph: David Trood/Getty Images Gabriel Bergmoser’s The Hunted unfolds a nightmare in the Australian outback. She’s a very intriguing character - stubborn, smart, idealistic, diligent - but she’s not very good with people.

to really enjoy this book, you've got to somehow get past the fact the victim's name is James Herriot and somehow - somehow! Flat writing, a lot of infodumping, and Persis felt rather like a man's idea of a strong female character, in that she flies off the handle and shouts at people whenever she gets upset (somehow without being told she's hysterical or over-emotional or unprofessional for it). Wadia also wonders why Herriot’s aide Madan Lal approached her unit rather than the better-connected CID.

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Aunt Nussie is insistent in her plans to get Persis married and producing children, but marriage will mean having to leave the police, and Persis hasn't worked so hard to get to where she is to let go of her ambitions and ideals so lightly. He is found alone in his office murdered and in a compromising position with his trousers off and missing as well. She is a member of a police unit that is comprised of officers who have been consigned to the scrap heap because of previous missteps in their career. The case itself holds several good twists but it really becomes too convoluted and also rather easy to decipher at the same time. The violence and dislocation which accompanied independence is still very much a preoccupation in 1949, and Wadia still has unresolved issues to do with her mother’s death, something her father refuses to discuss.We see her own struggles - including her strained relationship with her father and a rather sweet and inept flirtation with another investigator - and like her all the more for it. All the men characters were described with great attention to the sizes and shapes of their moustaches. As 1950 dawns and India prepares to become the world’s largest republic, Persis, accompanied by Scotland Yard criminalist Archie Blackfinch, finds herself investigating a case that is becoming more political by the second. Persis Wadia, Khan's detective, is a loner type, a Parsi from a family active in the Quit India movement, and Bombay's (and India's) first female police officer.

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