A Greater God - (Superintendent Le Fanu Mysteries) by Brian Stoddart (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Muslims are being murdered and his friends are at loggerheads as Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns to 1920s Madras, wondering if he will stay and if the British Empire in India can survive<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns to Madras from Penang where he leaves his new Straits Chinese love interest, Jenlin Koh, and a tempting new post in police intelligence there. He finds Hindu-Muslim tension on the rise in Madras, and his friends and subordinates Mohammad Habibullah and Jackson Caldicott at loggerheads as a result. A series of Muslim murders around the Presidency adds more tension. Le Fanu's arch enemy, Inspector-General Arthur "The Jockey" Jepson is reacting recklessly to the new conditions, then Le Fanu has to travel to Hyderabad where his former housekeeper and lover Roisin McPhedren is seriously ill. Le Fanu swings between his personal and professional challenges as a gang of revolutionaries and Hindu nationalists from North India travel south to aggravate the troubles. Le Fanu and Jepson clash head-on as the latter causes several policemen to be killed, and Le Fanu is losing support because his main civil service protectors are leaving Madras. Just as he seems close to overcoming all these problems, news arrives that Jenlin Koh is on board a ship reported missing near Ceylon. How will Le Fanu cope?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Adrian McKinty, Edgar Award and Ned Kelly Award winner: </p><p>"Brian Stoddart's Le Fanu books are one of my favourite current series. Always superbly well researched & supremely witty these books capture colonial era India's (particularly Madras) glamour, mores, hypocrisy, racism & skullduggery with delightful aplomb. Highly recommended!"</p><p>Ngaio Marsh Award judges, 2017: </p><p>"Stoddart is a marvellous prose stylist with an impressive command of dialogue, in particular; he uses setting superbly, captures the political absurdities of the place and time, and subtly foreshadows the loss of a colonial grip in the region. First-class crime writing."</p><br>
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