A review by usbsticky
Death in the East by Abir Mukherjee
4.0
I'm a big fan of this series. The setting is the British Raj around 1922. Captain Wyndham is a captain of the CID in Calcutta and Sergeant Banerjee is his assistant.
In this book Wyndham goes to an ashram in Assam to kick his opium addiction. While he is there, murder happens and his sergeant appears and is tasked to solve the murder.
This book is a little different in that there are two timelines. There is an earlier one in 1905 England where Wyndham is a young constable and he is involved in solving a murder in Whitechapel, where there is a large Jewish immigrant community.
Spoilers
The two timelines alternate and you find out how they mesh after the middle of the book. I'm not a big fan of alternating timelines or POV's because I have to reset every chapter, even though the two timelines is essential to the plot of the book, well kind of. He could have explained the first timeline in a single explanatory chapter at the end.
I like this series because I like the British Raj setting, the characters, the relationship between Wyndham and Banerjee and the mystery. The author's spiel kind of spoiled the enjoyment of this book for me. The locked door mystery was ok and everything else was just ok.
In this book Wyndham goes to an ashram in Assam to kick his opium addiction. While he is there, murder happens and his sergeant appears and is tasked to solve the murder.
This book is a little different in that there are two timelines. There is an earlier one in 1905 England where Wyndham is a young constable and he is involved in solving a murder in Whitechapel, where there is a large Jewish immigrant community.
Spoilers
The two timelines alternate and you find out how they mesh after the middle of the book. I'm not a big fan of alternating timelines or POV's because I have to reset every chapter, even though the two timelines is essential to the plot of the book, well kind of. He could have explained the first timeline in a single explanatory chapter at the end.
I like this series because I like the British Raj setting, the characters, the relationship between Wyndham and Banerjee and the mystery. The author's spiel kind of spoiled the enjoyment of this book for me. The locked door mystery was ok and everything else was just ok.