Bombay Monsoon

James Ziskin, award winning author of the Ellie Stone Mystery series, has turned his attention to India in his most recent book. Ziskin takes us back to 1975 and follows the adventures of Dan Jacobs, a newspaper reporter, who has recently been sent to India and arrives during the beginning of the Mo......more

Bombay Monsoon is an unusual story covering romance, cultural adjustment & crime. The descriptions of places, people & habits are very authentic, though somewhat selective. The story falls short though, and the finish especially so. Danny Jacobs works for the news agency UNI and lands in Mumbai on a......more

My thanks to Oceanview Publishing for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. Bombay Monsoon (2022) is a piece of historical fiction with a thriller/mystery element, set in India in 1975 during the period when the then PM Indira Gandhi had declared an Emergency. Twenty-six-year-old Danny Jacobs is a......more

i downloaded from netgalley due to title. i love India, i wrote a thriller based in India and i traveled a lot there. but... the idea of the book is interesting - base it in very turmoil period. but beside great knowledge of food, habits of locals i found it quite sloppy. in plot. take about quarter......more

I received an arc from NetGalley. This book is a historical fiction set in India. And it does that setting really well. The descriptions of the country, the food and the customs were super interesting to me. But unfortunately, that's where my positives end. This book follows a journalist who, when sta......more