Anita Sivakumaran – Cold Sun

‘Cold Sun’ by Anita Sivakumaran is a brand new series featuring Detective Vijay Patel. The book is set in Bengaluru, what was Bangalore, in India. Another brand new author with a fabulous sounding book and a cover that draws you into the web the author weaves.

Detective Patel finds himself like a fish out of water when he is sent to India to aid the police after four wealthy women have been murdered. The last woman being the former wife of the British Foreign Secretary so, off to Bengaluru he goes. A man who has only been to the country ten years previously to play cricket! He also hates spicy food and was born in the U.K too. It does make you wonder… out of 24 coppers, he is chosen. The answers are in the book though in case you are wondering.

The story is told from Patel’s point of view and we see him paired up with Chandra, a woman who is tougher and more determined than he expected. He does struggle with the Indian ways and Chandra’s policing compared to his Western world ways. Patel finds himself over his head with a bucket load of problems between home, health and working in a foreign country and then a killer that has no intention of stopping any time soon.

Fast-paced and riveting, this is a novel that I will definitely remember, the setting of India and a detective who is a bit different from the usual, piques my interest. The author has created well-drawn characters that are all a bit different to what would be expected. A detective who is an ex-professional cricket player? That is just one of the unique voices in this well crafted and interesting book.

An excellent foundation for Vijay Patel to grow from and I cannot wait to see how he develops throughout future books.

Thank you to Anne Cater of Random Things Tours and Dialogue Books for my gifted copy of this superb book.