Hilda Hinton

You know, I'm envious of their use of words.

So that was a great counterbalance to the darkness of the book.

I thought the ending was beautiful and fitting, although not for the faint-hearted.

There's a British Indian chap, Abir Mukherjee, who's set some crime novels in Calcutta in India, just as sort of colonial India is getting into strife.

And the main character is a policeman and an opium addict.

And the streets and the visuals are just incredible, as is the representation of the history of the time.

So I highly recommend those.

The first in the series is called A Rising Man.

Do you talk about this with your colleagues?

When I'm writing, I read genres that don't cross over the sort of style of writing I'm doing.

So crime fiction's often a fallback.

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