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First Published:
Jun 2023, 288 pages
Paperback:
May 7, 2024, 288 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Peggy Kurkowski
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Once a promising and rising police officer in his native India and in Hong Kong, Sergeant Akal Singh is banished to the beautiful but lonely archipelago of Fiji in 1914 to pay for a professional misstep that haunts him. In her debut novel A Disappearance in Fiji, Nilima Rao introduces this dynamic protagonist bent on resurrecting his career and finding justice, no matter the cost.
After six months working in the Suva Division of the Fijian Constabulary, Singh's only case is that of a peeping tom known as The Night Prowler, who has a penchant for showing up naked outside of locals' windows. But when a plantation owner reports one of his indentured servants is missing, and the Fiji Times runs a contradictory story that she was kidnapped, British Inspector-General Thurstrom assigns Singh to unravel the conflicting accounts and locate the woman before an Indian delegation reviewing the ...
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