Some murdered soldiers, a solicitor that gets ripped of by her partner, a missing father and the first flying vehicle. These are the ingredients in this book by William Boyd. The stories are very beautifully told and one gets involved and keen to find out the answers to these mysteries, so it's not without reason that I get a little bit disappointed when some mysteries remains unsolved when the last page is turned. The set is partly in the USA in 1930-something and partly in the Phillipines in the beginning of the 20th century. There is much love in this tale, and the language used is quite enjoyable. If you can bear with the fact that some things will remain unsolved, I really recommend this book, somehow i come to think of John Berendt's 'Midnight of the garden of good and evil', perhaps it is the sense for details that both this authors have.
