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Focusing on Fiji: An Interview with Nilima Rao

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Nilima Rao is a Fijian Indian Australian writer. Her first book, A Disappearance in Fiji (2023), won the 2024 ALA Reading Award for Mystery Fiction; was one of Booklist’s Top 10 Debut Mysteries and Thrillers in 2024; Amazon Top 20 Debut in 2023; and Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine’s 2023 Best Debut Winner of the Year. …

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A Disappearance in Fiji: Nilima Rao

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Published by Zaffre, 2023, 280 pages Fiji, 1914. Sergeant Akal Singh, an Indian Sikh, has been sent to Fiji after a humiliating incident in Hong Kong, where he was serving. All he wants to do is crack an important case to prove himself, so his superiors can send him back to Hong Kong. When his …

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