Up in Flames Casey Catt British Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Geraldine Evans Literature Fiction eBooks
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'Well researched. Intriguing plot. Good pace. Excellent characterisation and wry humour make this a very enjoyable read. Highly recommended.' MYSTERY WOMEN
#1 in the Casey and Catt British Detective Mystery Series
When Chandra Bansi and her baby, Leela, are burned to death, DCI ‘Will’ Casey and his less than politically correct sergeant, Thomas Catt, rapidly come under pressure from their superintendent to put a couple of skinhead thugs behind bars for arson. But Casey had more questions than the jailing of the skinheads will provide answers to.
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The investigation quickly unearths suspects other than the skinheads, suspects unlikely to endear him to his superiors or the Asian community. For instance, just how respectable is Chandra’s businessman father? And what about her in-laws, who seem to have blamed their westernised daughter-in-law for the death of their only son? Other members of the victim's family also come under suspicion. Casey must use the utmost sensitivity in his handling of the case if he is not to cause unrest in the Asian community.
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Superintendent Brown-Smith, acutely aware, after the Stephen Lawrence fiasco, that he is in the hot seat, is desperate for a speedy and politically-satisfactory solution to the case. Worried that his previously smooth and upward career progression will be irretrievably damaged, he places additional pressure on Casey.
The resolution of the most difficult case of Casey's career is not eased by the arrival of his impecunious hippie parents. Urgently in need of a temporary home, they selfishly concluded that decamping to Casey's peaceful haven will provide the solution to their current difficulties.
But their undisciplined lifestyle causes Casey sleepless nights at a time he most needs calm. Bedevilled at home by his irresponsible parents, bedevilled at work by accusations of discrimination from the usual quarters, Casey and ThomCatt must wend a circuitous path through all the additional problems the investigation throws up.
And, at the heart of the case is the fact that Chandra, a modern young woman, had been uncomfortably caught between two cultures. It’s hard to say which of them is the more dangerous.
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Up in Flames Casey Catt British Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Geraldine Evans Literature Fiction eBooks
"Having parents who were out of their heads concentrated Casey's wonderfully." One of the two detectives in this fascinating first-in-a-series has a mom and dad still hung over from Beatles tours. That they had dragged their only child to India and left him on his own would have been tragic, but it prepared him to understand what was going on in his English market town when Chandra Bansi is found burned to death with her infant daughter. For starters, he wonders what an Asian woman was doing living in a flat alone. The mystery deepens when he meets her parents, brother, sister-in-law, and grandparents, all living nearby in suburban comfort. Will Casey's colleague, Thomas Catt, is an orphan. His superintendent is a slave to political correctness. Thus he is pretty much on his own following his instincts and using knowledge from his time in a place "that knocked your socks off - and then offered to wash them for you." There's a Sherlockian moment when he smokes with the aging hippies camped in his home, and his mind clears.Geraldine Evans is well established as author of the humor-filled Rafferty and Llewelyn series, which I have not read and probably wouldn't choose, but I think she has something really important here. Her underlying question, "Do we know who we are?" applies not only to people struggling to reconcile two cultures, but to all of us who are reeling from unanticipated cultural cacophony in our lifetimes. The burgeoning immigrant populations of Britain have moved beyond cosmopolitan London, and the results have been documented by other writers, first and foremost John Waddington-Feather, whose Inspector Hartley solves cases in Yorkshire, with the aid of his Asian Sergeant Ibrahim Khan. These novelists go beyond genre entertainment to make us think about real and complex lives. I look forward to #2 in the series set in King's Langley, to be released on Kindle in June.
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Up in Flames Casey Catt British Mystery Series Book 1 edition by Geraldine Evans Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Ending seemed rather rushed, but that was okay for how the story was constructed. Casey and Catt are clever enough. I've put the second in the series on my TBR pile.
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Good crime mystery, with lots of good characters. A little hard to follow at times, due to all the British slang usage. It would have been nice to have a short list of slang description to refer to while reading. Otherwise it was a good story, that kept you guessing till the end. Janice Mote
Clearly, this novel was written by an inexperienced author, making for sorry reading. I didn't even finish it! I'll try this author again in maybe 10 years.
My rating falls between a 2 and a 3. The story never really got going - it was a worthy and relevant topic - Hindu beliefs conflicting with Western culture and on the face of it the act of Sati (the practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre) may have seemed a fine basis for a novel but the subject matter for me seemed to get in the way rather than enhance the story and I'm not really sure why but it just didn't work. Casey the central character never really won me over either, I found him lacking in many ways and overall pretty bland and forgettable which was disappointing as initially I was looking forward to following several of the stories in the series but sadly this is as far as we go.
Moves slowly, characters flawed adiquately, great for a winters read by the evenings fire but not a summer beach book, I liked it and they ending was appropriate but how she got there was stretched
Geraldine always manages to come up with some interesting plots. "Up in Flames" certainly falls into that category. She researched a lot of the ethnic traits and customs associated with her star subjects in this one, so the reader gets a bit of an education about the unfamiliar as well as a well-crafted mystery. All in all, a good read.
"Having parents who were out of their heads concentrated Casey's wonderfully." One of the two detectives in this fascinating first-in-a-series has a mom and dad still hung over from Beatles tours. That they had dragged their only child to India and left him on his own would have been tragic, but it prepared him to understand what was going on in his English market town when Chandra Bansi is found burned to death with her infant daughter. For starters, he wonders what an Asian woman was doing living in a flat alone. The mystery deepens when he meets her parents, brother, sister-in-law, and grandparents, all living nearby in suburban comfort. Will Casey's colleague, Thomas Catt, is an orphan. His superintendent is a slave to political correctness. Thus he is pretty much on his own following his instincts and using knowledge from his time in a place "that knocked your socks off - and then offered to wash them for you." There's a Sherlockian moment when he smokes with the aging hippies camped in his home, and his mind clears.
Geraldine Evans is well established as author of the humor-filled Rafferty and Llewelyn series, which I have not read and probably wouldn't choose, but I think she has something really important here. Her underlying question, "Do we know who we are?" applies not only to people struggling to reconcile two cultures, but to all of us who are reeling from unanticipated cultural cacophony in our lifetimes. The burgeoning immigrant populations of Britain have moved beyond cosmopolitan London, and the results have been documented by other writers, first and foremost John Waddington-Feather, whose Inspector Hartley solves cases in Yorkshire, with the aid of his Asian Sergeant Ibrahim Khan. These novelists go beyond genre entertainment to make us think about real and complex lives. I look forward to #2 in the series set in King's Langley, to be released on in June.
The Graveyard Mystery (Blake Hartley Detective Novels)
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