In the case of the Missing servant – we meet Vish Puri proprietor of the Most Private Investigations detective agency, where he is assisted by his operatives, Facecream and Tubelight. Of course it may have suffered for having been read after the beautiful prose and powerful imagery of the Hilary Mantel novel which I finished on Saturday. Maybe it has more to do with my mood this last couple of days than the book. However it left me rather cold, although I’m not at all sure why. I should have loved it – it has all the ingredients of something I would like a lot. So when this novel came my way recently at a bookcrossing meet up – I was anxious to give it a go – as it looked like something I would love. Novels like those by Alexander McCall Smith – although it is a while since I read one, the Marriage Bureau books and the Agatha Raisin series – to name but a few. Now and again I find I like cosy type novels, they hit the spot on a busy or stressful week when other kinds of books seem to be hard going.
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