Blake and Avery Novel The Strangler Vine, Book 1, (Paperback)

from ecataldi

The cover art and synopsis instantly hooked me and I knew I had to read this book. 1837. India. Colonial India. British Rule. Sold and sold. The story follows young Avery as he is tasked to helping a secretive older officer track down an acclaimed Indian poet who has gone missing. While trekking ...

from dbsovereign

This is a cross between Kipling and one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories. And is also an adventure and mystery with a good deal of research backing up the setting in 1830s India. This book paints a picture of a people oppressed by the British East India Company, but our sympathetic hero...

from EmpressReece

4.5 stars This book captured my interest because it's set in India. The atmosphere, the characters & natives & historical background of the East India Company, Thugees etc. enthralled me. I'm not sure if this is a stand-alone or going to be a series but I'm hoping for series. It's hard to find a ...

from cathyskye

Author M.J. Carter brings colonial India to life in that period twenty years before the Great Mutiny of 1857. Life in Calcutta is exotic and expensive. Even a young soldier like Avery is expected to have a minimum of seven servants! To the British, every native of India is inferior-- and so are t...

from NatalieSW

Willing to admit part of the reason I loved this book is the time period about which it's written-one of my fascinations. Well-researched but not pedantic at all, interesting and provocative characters, some of whom are real historical figures. Very exciting, rather John-Buchan-esque, written wit...