Book 26 in 2017. “The Strangler Vine”, by M.J. Carter.
This was a new type of historical mystery for me. It is the first book I have read that took place during early 19th century in India. If I am honest, I wasn’t quite sure I would make it through the book. I almost gave up around page 80. Ha. There was enough of a story unfolding that I really did want to know what was going to happen. It…was…slow… setting up.
William Avery is in the British military and given an assignment with a mysterious rogue company man, Jeremiah Blake. They are searching for a missing British civilian, famous author Xavier Mountstuart. Their mission takes them on a journey through the jungles, villages, temples, and palaces across India.
It was a fairly clean book (meaning, not a lot of language and no sex), but had a little bit of a dark story line. There was murder and bloodshed, fighting and some historical accounts of what it was like in India during British occupation. I did skip over a lot of jungle detail. It did keep me up to 1:30 am one night, which I am not a late night girl! Overall afterthought, interesting.
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