Customer Reviews

14 reviews

• Sam Stone

  I've read a lot of crime fiction over the years and Robin Tones has created a fantastic new crime-busting hero to rival Poirot or Marple or Rebus. The Cambodian setting is fascinating for a reader who has never visited that part of the world and adds a refreshing element to the dead-body-on-a-bus story (no spoilers!) Tones packs in a great deal of local and regional social and political history as context for this multi-layered tale but this in no way hinders the pace or excitement of the novel. Murder On The Angkor Express is a great read! I look forward to more from Tones in the future.
  

• Richard Noble

  Tones creates characters with the dimensions, lyricism and wit of the grand master he evokes in the title. Combining a classic mystery narrative with twists and a tantalizing setting, “Angkor” has you chomping at the bit before you race to the first page. More, Robin! More!
  

• Martin Hull

  An enjoyable trilogy of inter-related stories. My signed copy was the first book I’d read in a couple of years and I hope to be able to read more from the same author.
  

• Nutmegsmum

  This is a warm and entertaining book, consisting of three short stories featuring the same characters. The plot of each story is engaging enough to maintain interest and comes to a satisfactory conclusion, but the charm of this book is the way the writer draws the characters with good humour, sharp observation and deprecating wit. We are transported with a few deft details to the steamy heat of Cambodia, the machinations of its military, its politicians and its police force, seen through the eyes of the long-suffering main character trying to do the right thing against a background of a difficult domestic life and incompetent and corrupt colleagues.
  
  In the interests of transparency, I was sent a review copy of this book by the author, who is a member of a writing group to which I also belong. But I am happy to say without bias that I enjoyed reading it and I hope other people will too.

• John Bell

  A main character, a police officer, trying to solve a murder mystery and somehow juggling local, office and political 'sensitivities' to get it done!
  Think 'Agatha Christie Solving Crimes While Walking a Tightrope NOT Of Her Choosing!'
  The author weaves this intricate plot...... and it works!
  I suspect we have not heard the last of Chief Inspector Suon!

• Rick Belisle

  I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's first book. Set in a land few of us have been to, it gives some interesting facts that are well involved and included to make the story a fun and interesting read. To parallel, as an avid reader, it has been a pleasure to experience my favorite writer, that being Randy Wayne White, and his progression and improvement as I've worked through his many books. I wish the same results for Robin as he continues in his writing endeavors! Keep at it, Robin!
  

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