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It’s a source of some concern to me that several of my favourite writers of novels and mysteries set in India have decided to write books about completely different places. I was intrigued to see how Vaseem Khan would handle the challenge of writing a whodunnit from the point of view of not one but two contemporary female American characters.

Would it be a compliment to his flexibility to say that I kept having to remind myself that this very accomplished novel came from the man behind the Baby Ganesh and Persia Wadia/Malabar House novels?

Of course, Khan is actually a British author and I can understand his urge to break out of his Indian storytelling niche, but I did wonder why he chose small-town America over a UK setting.

He did well. Very well.

The tale is of a murder in a small town with a dominant family influencing everything that happens in Eden Falls. A young woman was found guilty of murder and sent to jail. But did she really do it?

I’m not going to give you any clues. Too many books are spoilers and this plot requires protection.

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