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Tasneem Pocketwala
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Can a mystery novel be informative, intriguing and deeply comforting all at once? Amulya Malladi achieves this in her first foray into the genre, A Death in Denmark, a thriller that warns of history seeping into the present and that introduces a detective with every possibility of turning iconic: Gabriel Præst.
The city of Copenhagen comes alive under Malladi's pen with its thriving cafés, streets, houses and moody, revelatory weather. The Copenhagen we find in the book is refreshingly cosmopolitan, showing immigrant influence in its food — there were now "more sushi bars than hot-dog stands," as Præst observes — and the people the main character interacts with. Coming as it does from the Indian born-and-raised Danish citizen Malladi, this unfolds very naturally.
The novel hooks you right in with its lengthy, sharply-written opening chapter about a little...
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