'This police procedural is the only novel about a stolen camel that I have ever read. But the camel plot is intertwined with a darker mystery: the story of a woman whose battered body is washed loose in heavy rains from its shallow riverbank grave. The characters of the two police officers working as a team are convincing enough and the plot more or less works, but the writing is curiously flat, and many of the minor characters are stereotypes. ...'