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A Disappearance in Fiji
Nilima Rao
Soho Crime
June 2023
On Sale: June 6, 2023
Featuring: Akal Singh; Nilima Rao
288 pages
ISBN: 1641294299
EAN: 9781641294294
Kindle: B0BDDT1RHZ
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Mystery Historical
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-
year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing
persons case in colonial Fiji
1914, Fiji: Akal
Singh, 25, would rather be anywhere but this tropical
paradise—or, as he calls it, “this godforsaken
island.” After a promising start to his police career
in Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a
humiliating professional mistake. Lonely and grumpy, Akal
plods through his work and dreams of getting back to Hong
Kong or his native India.
When an indentured
Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and
Fiji’s newspapers scream “kidnapping,” the
inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case. Akal,
eager to achieve redemption, agrees—but soon finds
himself far more invested than he could have expected.
Now not only is he investigating a disappearance, but
also confronting the brutal realities of the indentured
workers’ existence and the racism of the British
colonizers in Fiji—along with his own thorny notions
of personhood and caste. Early interrogations of the white
plantation owners, Indian indentured laborers, and native
Fijians yield only one conclusion: there is far more to this
case than meets the eye.
Nilima Rao’s
sparkling debut mystery offers an unflinching look at the
evils of colonialism, even as it brims with wit, vibrant
characters, and fascinating historical detail.
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