Title: Overwritten and predicatable
Product review: I am partial to books set in East Africa and am not immune to the pleasures of a mystery, but this book was disappointing. The premise does not hold water - the plot is based on the formulaic opening scene where the protagonist's perhaps-lover crashes his plane in a dogfight and with his last breath binds our heroine to search for his long-lost brother. As the trail leads to Kenya we are introduced to many two-dimensional characters who speak in unnatural and stereotyped dialogue and confront tribal mysteries that unlike in Alexander McCall Smith, for example, do not bring us even an enlightened white person's understanding of the complex sociology of African cultures. I would give this book a pass.
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