Aparna reviews Tarquin Hall’s The Case of the Missing Servant:

The Indian class system and treatment of servants, rural poverty and the exodus to urban India, the stark contrast between slums and gleaming urban palaces, the tortoise-like pace of the Indian judicial system – all these become part of the case of the missing servant, Mary, that Puri is called in to investigate and must solve if he is prevent an innocent man from being convicted of murder. All this while he continues to handle his ‘routine’ cases, the screening of grooms before arranged marriages are conducted. The novel flits between Delhi and Jaipur with an occasional detour into the rural hinterland, as Puri pits himself against an ambitious police officer who’s made up his mind minus evidence, and sees no problem with that.