Nev March
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- Fødselsdato
- 1967
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- female
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- Jill Grosjean
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Murder in old Bombay af Nev March
interesting amalgam of kipling's kim, sherlock holmes and a romance. I think the author is most successful when doing the road adventure sections that resemble kim. I found the romance sections a bit cloying. the overall mystery, involving a letter, blackmail, human trafficking and the Indian independence movement was done well
After having immigrated to America, Captain Jim and his wife Diana are heading from Boston to Liverpool on one of 1894's elaborate Cunard ocean liners. Jim meets an elderly Spainard during the rough first evening as he tries to rather descriptively tries to find his sea legs. When the elderly man is found in the locked music room. tied to a chair and garroted, the Captain of the ship leans on Jim's past investigative experience to solve this locked room within a locked room mystery before they get to England. There is a ship full of suspects and Jim relies on Diana's capable instincts as well as his own to try to solve the crime.… (mere)
This had the common debut issue of trying to do too much in one book (and it was too long) but I really liked the characters and setting and was invested in the outcome.
The historical aspect is well done, the plot is interesting and the pacing is good but the writing is choppy which prevented me from actually getting into the story. I found the characters rather flat and I feel no desire to read the other books in the series.
Thank you to whatever nice publisher it was who sent me the ARC for review.
Thank you to whatever nice publisher it was who sent me the ARC for review.
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- 3
- Medlemmer
- 496
- Popularitet
- #49,831
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- 3.8
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- 64
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- 15