In reality you get a little bit of both but one the whole, for me at least, you are also getting a glimpse into the cultural turbulence of Peru, something I didn’t really know that much about. However reading the report of a murder, by burning, you get the instant impression that this is going to be a thriller. Opening ‘Red April’ and reading the first report from our protagonist Associate District Prosecutor Felix Chacaltana Saldivar (quite a mouthful) I wasn’t quite sure what this book was going to be about as the cover so heavily makes you think this is going to be some highly religious book. I threw myself in regardless though because I always like to finish a book group book, it’s a rare book that I will give up on, which one was this? I was slightly worried that I would be out of my depth with this one. However it is thanks to Armen’s latest choice for the face to face book group I am in, the Riverside Readers, that I had no choice but to give the book a whirl. I would never have imagined back at the start of the year that I would end up reading a Peruvian political thriller.
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