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authors older posts review the perplexing theft of the jewel in the crown by vaseem khan posted on february 10 2018 by bernadetteinoz the perplexing theft of the jewel in the crown is a genuine treat and is particularly recommended to those looking for something other than an endless stream of death from their crime fiction there isn t even a murder in it well there s one death that might count but i d wager that even the most law abiding reader would let this one through to the keeper inspector ashwin chopra retd former mumbai policeman and current private investigator visits a touring exhibition of the crown jewels yes those ones with his wife poppy before they can do more than glance at a case or two everyone in the room falls to the floor when they are woken the centrepiece of the exhibit the crown in which the koh i noor diamond was set for edward vii s wife after being used in a bracelet and a brooch in during its relatively short time in british hands has been stolen of course there is an official police investigation but it is being led by one of mumbai s most corrupt officers refer to the first book in this series and the prime suspect who has already been arrested begs chopra to clear his name it s hard to know where to start listing all the things there are to love about this book perhaps the wonderfully drawn characters chopra is a delight intelligent a little old fashioned but self aware enough to know it and his integrity is not a remote concept but something he lives and breathes which can have truly disastrous consequences such as when he refuses to pay the bribe some petty bureaucrat demands in return for allowing chopra s elephant to remain in his restaurant s back yard ganesh the baby elephant chopra inherited from his uncle has become entrenched in the chopra family s life and plays an important role in this story it sounds like a silly gimmick i know but khan does a great job of making ganesh s various forays into the book s events seem perfectly normal and i want to believe so i shall chopra s wife poppy really comes into her own here as she takes on a teaching job at an exclusive boys school and then has to help investigate a theft there then there s rangwalla who was fired from the police force when it became clear he had helped chopra during the events depicted in the first book of this series happily chopra s new business venture has so much work that he can employ his old friend who proves very canny and a star of the chopra s unorthodox and ever extending family circle is young irfan once a street beggar now working at the restaurant he and his troubles will melt the hardest of hearts though its characters are warm and not beset by damaging addictions cricket doesn t count the perplexing theft of the jewel in the crown is not all sweetness and light even without a central murder the book s crimes show the complexities of life in modern mumbai with corruption being as commonplace as breathing poverty remaining a profound problem for some despite the progress of recent years and the new wealthy class providing a particular kind of social problem and i haven t even mentioned the ripper yarn there s a clever locked room mystery thefts galore a kidnapping or two well one is an elephant and the infiltration of a meeting of mask wearing rich chaps not bothered by the many crimes they are at least adjacent to if not directly involved with a true adventure i can t imagine anyone who wouldn t feel at least little bit better after reading this book publisher mullholland books 2016 isbn 9781473612310 length 344 pages format paperback book series 2 in the baby ganesh agency series source of review copy borrowed library share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on delicious opens in new window delicious share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in book review india vaseem khan 12 comments review breakheart hill by thomas h cook posted on february 8 2018 by bernadetteinoz i m very grateful to regular visitor tracy who blogs wonderfully herself at biter tea and mystery for recommending this book set in her native alabama for my virtual tour of the usa via its fiction tracy hasn t actually read her copy yet maybe i will convince her breakheart hill is ben wade s story of love gone awry in small town alabama wade is a middle aged doctor in the present day looking back on his teenage years when he was a highschooler aching to escape the town and the life path it represented until kelli troy moved to town from up north first kelli became his friend then something more but when she is attacked one summer afternoon on the book s eponymous breakheart hill a place with a tragic history before the events of 1962 kelli s is not the only life destroyed i loved everything about this book absolutely everything perhaps most importantly because it is part of my virtual tour the setting is beautifully depicted and not just because it shows some of the things i expected based on my extremely limited knowledge of the state but because it shows so much more i think the town cook has created is fictional there is a choctaw county but does not appear to be an actual town with that name but it will exist in my imagination forever now i feel like i could make my way from ben s house to where his father s grocery store stood to the old high school and i would know the people then and now and where each fit into the scheme of things i m normally quite terrified of even the idea of small town life but here it is depicted in a way that makes me at least appreciative if not a little envious much like kelli who has moved from baltimore it s taught me that basically every place has the whole world in it kelli said everything that happens happens everywhere she thought a moment longer then added but maybe in a small place a slower place you can see it better as far as storytelling goes the book is perfect from the outset we know that ben is somehow involved in what happened to kelli he alludes to the fact himself and his best friend of 30 years keeps niggling away at the subject over the course of their shared lives but any punishment ben has incurred such as returning to choctaw after finishing medical school and being the best local doctor he could possibly be is self imposed this what really happened plot would probably have been enough to maintain my attention but there is more there s all the ripples that can be traced to what happened back then bad marriages accidental deaths missed opportunities lives half lived and some not lived at all cook teases all of this out at just the right pace so the book feels like a collection of genuine interesting surprises but not a jumble of shocks designed for nothing more than their heart thumping value it s a book that prompts lots of ah now i see s rather than what the heck was that s even the ending is satisfying which is these days a rarity like the place the characters here live and breathe no one is just a trait a jock or a racist or a nerd or a popular girl everyone has multiple facets to their personality which sometimes confirms what we already believe and sometimes surprises i often fall in love with a single character in a book but here it s more that i loved the collective that cook introduced me too he nails the teenagers who feel everything so intensely and to their minds for the first time in human history who hasn t thought they were the first to feel a particular kind of love or anger or sadness but he nails the adults too those who ve coped with the upheavals of life those who haven t those who haven t needed to all of them are very very real finally the book doesn t shy away from exploring some difficult themes and ideas most of it takes place in the american south in the 60 s and it would be almost absurd if it didn t in some way look at race so it does but in a way that manages not to be heavy handed yet remain quite thought provoking there are other themes too friendship guilt reflection all deftly handled which is all a long winded way of expanding upon my original point i loved absolutely everything about this book this is the 23rd book i m including in my quest to complete the reading usa fiction challenge in which i m aiming to read a total of 51 books one set in each of the usa and one for the district of columbia my personal twist is that all the books are by new to me authors publisher random house 1995 isbn 9780307572714 length 297 format ebook epub book series standalone source of review copy borrowed library share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on delicious opens in new window delicious share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in book review thomas h cook usa 16 comments review the language of secrets by ausma zehanat khan posted on february 5 2018 by bernadetteinoz ausma zehanat khan followed up her debut novel the unquiet dead with another thought provoking exploration of the complexities of modern policing in the language of secrets the two main characters are again esa khattak and rachel getty from toronto s community policing section the team and its leader esa khattak in particular is under investigation due to the events depicted in the first book but they are still called upon for cases where the sensitivities of minority groups are at risk of being trampled upon here mohsin dar a muslim man has been killed and his father a loudmouth radio host is threatening to cause the kind of publicity the police don t want right now for security reasons the family cannot be told but dar had infiltrated a terrorist cell and was supplying information to the canadian federal intelligence agency about an imminent attack intercepting the terrorists before they can carry out their plan is of paramount importance esa who knew moshin dar personally is asked to keep moshin s father from inadvertently bungling the time sensitive operation as if giving only the appearance of a murder investigation is not hard enough esa s job is made more difficult because the man in charge of the operation to stop the terrorist action is a personal enemy and keeps vital information from esa and rachel as a contemplation on modern workplace politics the book is worryingly accurate moshin s way into the terrorist group had been via a local mosque from which a charismatic man has recruited members while esa tackles moshin s father and tries to begin a real investigation into the murder rachel is sent to the mosque as a potential convert to islam with the aim of befriending the mostly young people who moshin dar had identified as probably being involved with the cell i thought the rest of the book outstanding but unless canada has a vastly different health safety framework than any jurisdiction i ve ever had anything to do with this element did not ring at all true for me a cell leader of the type depicted here would only grow hyper vigilant to new faces if he is as close to carrying out an attack as police believe but rachel just appears at the mosque without a shred of a cover story and behaves as suspiciously as humanly possible in the read world i don t think she d have lasted five minutes and i can t imagine any employer letting this happen but the rest of the book is remarkable so i was able to forgive this plot contrivance one of the best things about it is its depiction of something other than the amorphous muslim community that is portrayed in much modern media i am so sick of reading statements in which all members of any group say or do one single thing in response to every event here there are a range of muslim characters who all think and behave independently and many are shown grappling with the same kind of life hassles as the rest of us unrequited love family fights and heartaches fitting in to a new social group extremism in the form of terrorism is shown but only in the wider context i won t pretend to be an expert on what it s like to live as a muslim in a world in which many equate the religion with terrorism but my family background is irish catholic and i grew up with the stories of my relatives being labelled and fired and in at least two cases imprisoned as ira terrorists on the flimsiest possible evidence khan has done a great job of showing just what a burden this kind of guilt by very weak association can be for whole communities not only those who are labelled but let me assure you the book is not all about terrorism there s lots of love and poetry too especially poetry esa moshin and the terrorist leader all use poetry to communicate within the story and khan has i think included the extracts and conversations which surround them as a way to inform readers about aspects of islamic history without making it feel like a religion 101 lecture it s beautifully done i realise i ve rambled on a lot and haven t said all i could about the book but i suspect that you re either hooked by now or you re not if you are i would urge you to give the book a go as soon as you can though i do think it would be a better reading experience if you d read the unquiet dead first and if you re not hooked i hope you stumble across a copy abandoned in a hotel room or something and are prompted by the absence of anything else to read to give it a go publisher minotaur 2016 isbn 9781250055125 length 329 pages format hardcover book series 2 in the esa khattak series source of review copy borrowed from library share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook more share on delicious opens in new window delicious share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr like loading posted in ausma zehanat khan book review canada 9 comments six degrees 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