Food of Ghosts
Amazon.com Food of Ghosts
My review -
Louisa,
a Detective Sergeant, goes to the Gilbert Island of Tarawa as a European
Commission trainer. She was born on the
island and lived there till she was eight, when she moved with her family to
Edinburgh. While there, she is face
with a murder and a huge amount of frustration.
The police have no radios, there is no SOCO service and the mortuary
freezer’s broken, still awaiting a part.
Her frustration is compounded by the archaic views of her male
colleagues and the cultural differences between people in her Scottish home and
those on the island. She is faced with
bullying, monstrous injustice and some very nasty expatriates.
This
is one of the quirkiest detective stories I’ve ever read. The situations Louise finds herself in are
funny, infuriating and completely gripping.
There’s the magic of the island with its family centred culture and the
mystery of the increasing body count.
The character of Louisa, with her deep sense of justice, her mild OCD
and her extended island family to complicate matters, is surely one we must see
again. Marianne Wheelaghan is a great
story teller and she’s created a potential series here. This is a hugely enjoyable book, complex and
engaging, and I hope there will be more of the same to come.
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