Publisher's Synopsis
Detective Joe Sandilands series Simla 1922. The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the Jazz Age. This is where detective Joe Sandilands is heading as the guest of Sir George Jardine, the Governor of Bengal. But when Joe's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the Governor's car, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation. Confronted by the mystery of an identical unsolved killing a year before, Joe realizes that Sir George's hospitality comes at a high price. As Joe begins to unravel the mystery, he discovers that behind the sparkling facade of social life in Simla lies a trail of murder, vice and blackmail. Someone in this close-knit community has a sinister secret and the nearer Joe comes to uncovering it, the nearer he comes to his own death.
