Never stop reading. (Content originally posted at Blogger.)
"Strangler vine" is a common name for several different species of Ficus—what they have in common is that they latch onto a host plant and and use it to climb into sunlight. Sometimes, they kill their hosts. Given than M.J. Carter's novel, The Strangler Vine, is about the British East India Company and the Thuggee, it's a very apropos and evocative image to summon...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.