Rating: 4/5
Review:
Very enjoyable
I enjoyed A Rising Man very much. It’s engaging, well- researched
and well written.
Set in Calcutta in
1919, Sam Wyndham is an inspector newly arrived from Scotland Yard to
join the Indian police force. He is immediately needed to
investigate a violent death with apparently political overtones and a
good, enthralling plot ensues as Sam and his new sidekick Sergeant
Banerjee combat the machinations of the powerful ruling elite,
Military Intelligence and so on.
In truth,
experienced readers of the genre will have little trouble in spotting
the false leads and probably the villains, both major and minor, in
the story. I didn’t mind that, though; it was well enough written
to keep me engrossed and the background of India under the Raj was
extremely well done. Some of the language used was more 21st-Century
American than early 20th-Century upper-crust British, but I got used
to it and again the story and setting were good enough to make this
scarcely relevant.
I’ll certainly be
reading the next books in this series and I can recommend this
warmly.
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