The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
Vaseem Khan
Having read it
★★★★☆
A good read that delighted by its ability to just steadily reveal what it needed to, developing characters and the plot and doing it all with a lightness of touch and a bit of humour.
Solid work from Chopra and a good finish – solving the crimes and creating a new restaurant!
A good passage
Chopra and Poppy lived on the fifteenth floor of the tower in the complex, Poomalai Apartments. The other two were called Meghdoot and Vijay, the towers collectively named in honour of the three famous operations undertaken by the Indian Air Force. Mumbai’s lack of space dictated that the bulk of the burgeoning middle class now lived in such high-rise prisons. The city was a hive of construction. If the kept building towers at the current rate, Chopra imagines that Mumbai would soon resemble a giant pincushion. The thought did not please him.
A second good passage
He [Chopra] found something intrinsically vulgar and alien about them [shopping malls], from the sheer arrogance of their size, to the conveyor-belt so-called hospitality of their service. He had made a point of continuing to patronise the smaller shops that he had always frequented, even though they were rapidly being forced out of business by the new behemoths.