Private India
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2.3 • 6 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
When Santosh Wagh isn’t struggling out of a bottle of whisky he’s head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world’s finest PI agency.
In a city of over thirteen million he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women – seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes.
As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces Private India – a danger that could threaten the lives of thousands of innocent Mumbai citizens…
Customer Reviews
Complicated.
Indian accent was difficult to identify each character. Story too complicated and multiple names hard to remember if you are not familiar with Indian language.
Did not enjoy.
*Not for me*
This instalment takes us to Private India based in Mumbai. I really wanted to love this one but found it a bit busy with characters and often had trouble keeping track apart from the key players.
The head of Private Santosh Wagh is a good investigator but is hampered by his love of alcohol. He is battling demons from his past but is a functioning alcoholic to a point. I felt he was carried at times bit by his staff but I found that when he was in the thick of things drink seemed to be far from his mind.
The current case is about women being killed and staged with objects around them or things placed in their hands. The killer’s signature is a yellow scarf which is also the weapon of choice. They all seem like unconnected cases, now Santosh has to work hard to piece it all together to try to stop the culprit. Now that’s hard enough but there is also an even bigger threat out there which could endanger many, many lives.
On paper the premise was better than the execution. There was corruption from the lowest to the highest of levels and far too busy to keep on track, I kept having to go back and work out who was who and gave up and could not wait to get through it. I wonder how much of this was written by James Patterson and by Ashwin Wagh