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11. _The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken_ by Tarquin Hall
Sun Apr 20, 2014, 08:59 PM
Apr 2014

Vish Puri is back, investigating away, this time following a case that leads both to Pakistan and his mother's past, a dangerous combination. I love Tarquin Hall's writing--the cadence of the dialog, the bits of flying description bring the sounds and sights and smells of India so vibrantly to life. I've traveled there often for work over the last couple of decades and I always find delight in the images Hall evokes for me.

Listening: _The Urth of the New Sun_ by Gene Wolfe. Follow-up novel to "The Book of the New Sun" quartet. Another author--kind of like Patrick O'Brian--who has the confidence to just skip stuff, skip ahead in a story and trust that the parts he does tell, he does so well that the human mind will fill in the rest. Amazes me.

2014: 41 and counting.

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