Harini Negendra: A Nest of Vipers
Bangalore Detectives Club #3
I am a huge fan of this fledgling series set in 1920’s Bangalore. The books are set around the same time at Sujata Massey’s Perveen Mistry books, but in a different part of India. However, all the parts of India were experiencing the same thing: a desire for independence from their British overlords. Massey has a book about the Prince of Wales’ visit to then colonial India, The Bombay Prince, and this is Negendra’s book about that same visit. Gandhi was calling for peaceful protests (much like Martin Luther King) and throughout India there were welcomes for the Prince with an undercurrent of revolution. India did not actually gain independence until 1947, so this is a story of a nascent movement, brought out of the shadows by the visit of a British royal.