Assignment: Nepal, an Irene Adler Mystery. I loved this book, I read it in a few days and you would find me with a slight smile on my face and occasionally a burst of laughter when I wasn’t crumpling my forehead with tension about what would happen next. I’m generally not a big mystery fan because they often take so long to lay out the plot that I’m already bored! In this case you are swept immediately into the adventure.
Our lead is Irene Adler and she has quite a conversation with a committee in her own head which is funny and I can completely relate. She is a straight forward academic anthropologist who is bored with her less than inspiring students and her less than inspiring life so she takes an assignment to solve a mystery for her former professor and the location is Nepal.
I am an avid traveler and love to read about places before I go. I am intrigued by the sights, sounds and happenings of this mysterious part of the globe. In the main story you have Margo who was an academic but is now caught up in the religious practicies and civil disobedience of the more progressive society. She has lost her objectivity and Irene is concerned .. maybe even her mind, as she goes on a search for an ancient goddess and the trail of death that seems to surround her.
Have a good time with this book, its characters and the wonder of a place that is rich with the ancient, the modern and the wisdom of the Hindu and the Buddhist alike. I even appreciated the travel tips.. I will drink bottled water when I make it to Nepal!
Christie Hardwick
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