Review: The Amazon Murders by S.W. Lee
The story is built around inscrutable deaths of men who are involved in illegal harvesting of mahogany trees in the Amazon rainforest. Dramatic interactions within the set of characters, namely academics Dr. Julie Cole, Nigel Diobello, businessman Arthur Livingston, shaman Lupa and others give varied perspectives of jungle ecosystem. All along the reading the author succeeded in capturing my attention, and possible motives for murder were keeping me guessing. Whereas mythological framework where a tree takes a symbolic meaning of life concept shapes a deeper plot level. Moreover it's felt that the author put in her best licks to familiarize readers with the plausible context sailing down the Amazon river and getting information from the Brazilian locals and scientists as a pre-writing research. Such artistic approach combining attractive story and scientific exploration seems to be a real catch these days. It could encourage the emergence of other artists' projects of science art genre which would tackle hot-button issues of people-nature interface. I strongly recommend this book to the fans of mystery and crime genre that are looking for something original!
*I received a free copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review
