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Furnivall hits the ground running and doesn't let up. I did not want to put this book down and searched to see which of her books have slipped by me. The ending may be a bit far fetched, but the point of her stories is to entertain and she did a good job with this one.
Helpful Score: 1
After reading about this book on another site, I couldn't wait to read it and I wasn't disappointed. Ms. Furnivall weaves an intriguing story of an Englishwoman married to a rubber plantation owner in Malaya in late 1941.
You know from the very first sentence this will be an unusual story: "It was not the first time Connie had killed someone. But today there were witnesses."
The author grabs you from that very first sentence and pulls you into a foreign world of class and race, intrigue and danger, surprises and discovery. She has written a mesmerizing tale that has stayed with me for days afterward. In fact, I'm going to re-read it---it's just that good!
You know from the very first sentence this will be an unusual story: "It was not the first time Connie had killed someone. But today there were witnesses."
The author grabs you from that very first sentence and pulls you into a foreign world of class and race, intrigue and danger, surprises and discovery. She has written a mesmerizing tale that has stayed with me for days afterward. In fact, I'm going to re-read it---it's just that good!
