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File Size: 1943 KB
Print Length: 200 pages
Publisher: Stane Street Press (August 10, 2016)
Publication Date: August 10, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01K7VSGO8
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Greatly enjoyed this cozy mystery in slightly exotic 1930s British colonial Ceylon and would love to have tea with Inspector Shanti de Silva and his charming English wife, Jane, in their home tucked in the lush highlands outside of Colombo. Fascinating investigation of the local British tea factory owner, a very nasty piece of work, on a shabby plantation with ill-used workers. Once this cruel owner is found dead, Shanti has to walk a fine line with both the man’s friend and his lawyer as he works to solve the murder. A mistreated and frightened wife, a mistreated and dismissed worker, a car chase in a Daimler through the thronged streets of Nuala—all these add to the puzzle amid long-ago local color. Another amusing touch to this delightful look at life in Ceylon is de Silva’s malapropisms, which his wife gently corrects (“a warning shot across the ship†is corrected to “across the bows, dear.â€) With financial intrigue and worker issues to negotiate, and in spite of the interference of the assistant government agent, aptly named Clutterbuck, de Silva slowly and calmly ties everything together and I was left happily looking forward to the next two books in the series.
Inspector de Silva and his English wife Jane waited until they were in their forties to marry. Yes, they'd finally met the person they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with, but they were also old enough to know their own minds and not care about any raised eyebrows. Why the raised eyebrows? Because it is 1930s colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and mixed marriages aren't quite the done thing. Shanti enjoys reading classics like Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe while Jane prefers Agatha Christie. Shanti loves the spicy foods of his native Ceylon and finds English food bland and heavy. Jane would never eat chilis for breakfast. These two main characters in Harriet Steel's Trouble in Nuala are fun to get to know-- and there's more.This book has a marvelous sense of time and place. Readers learn about a country under British colonial rule and the problems with which it must deal. Not only that, but the descriptions of the landscape and wildlife of Ceylon are vivid and help to bring the whole book to life. Two examples: farmers set off firecrackers to scare away wild elephants and prevent them from destroying crops, and then there are stunning scenes like "the startling lime-green splash of a paddy field where egrets stood like white question marks."Although the killer's identity isn't all that difficult to deduce, my appetite for the other books in this series will not be denied. The only real problem I have with Trouble in Nuala is that it's too short!
Bring from Sri Lanka, I may have approached this with some doubt in my mind. How well would a foreigner depict my country and its vibrant culture? Well, I did find a few questionable moments, but overall, I must say the book was quite satisfactory!My first query was - where exactly is Nuala? Some reviews mentioned Kandy, but that is incorrect as many people drive to and from Kandy in the story. I think it is Nuwara-Eliya, which is quite a mouthful to say, and hence quite understandably shortened to Nuala.If the author's descriptions are to be believed, not much has changed from the 1930's to present day Nuwara-Eliya. Hoppers / roti and hot sambol or curry for breakfast, slow trains, even the description of some of the stalls and the market in the town sounded familiar. The author has obviously researched Sri Lankan country life, and this could be seen in many places. For example, where she describes the needless killing of elephants by the British as a sport.I did find some details difficult to accept. The protagonist de Silva is a Sinhalese policeman from Colombo who was recently transferred to the hill country. However, he speaks Tamil quite fluently. Those who did receive an education during the Colonial era studied in English, while the native languages were not taught. One would learn it at home. So I found it difficult to believe that de Silva would be so conversant with what is basically the third language of the country. (Although it is accurate that Tamil is widely spoken in the tea estates since 50% of the population are of Indian origin.)The worst blunder in my opinion is the choice of name for the lawyer - Ravindra Tagore - really? Wasn't there any other name that could be used? Rabindranath Tagore immediately jumps to mind...My favourite aspect was de Silva's take on British culture. The little mental notes and comments that littered the text. I loved the way his wife kept correcting his usage of idiomatic speech - "a warning shot across the ship would be a better way of dealing with it - across the bows, dear"The mystery itself was not as complex as an Agatha Christie novel, but then very few authors reach that height! Overall, an enjoyable experience and a very cozy mystery.
Pleasant, well written cozy type police procedural with a couple of plot holes. I enjoyed the setting in particular though I had to suspend my disbelief significantly to think all were ok with British rule and mixed race marriages. It was almost too light for me considering de Silva's position. I'm sure life wasn't all cricket and tea for any policeman regardless of nationality at that time.I think I should stick to reading this series when I'm in the mood for something light and want to just go with the flow.
What a delightful change of pace. I really liked the characters and the location. It took place during a gentler time without all the cruelty and violence that defines far too much of the books we see being published now. There is more that enough violence surrounding us today without having our escape to the land of books filled with it. The story did not move at a fast pace, but I found myself steadily turning the pages to see what was around the corner. The author sprinkled just enough detail about the places and people that really helped you to form pictures in your mind. But at the same time did not overload the book with excessive detail as too many authors today have a tendency to do. I will look forward to reading more about de Silva.
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