The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands Murder Mysteries) - Softcover

Cleverly, Barbara

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9780385339711: The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands Murder Mysteries)

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ISBN 10: 0385339712 ISBN 13: 9780385339711

Publisher: Delta, 2006

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In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who survived the horror of the Western Front and has endured six sultry months in English-ruled Calcutta. Sandilands is ordered to investigate, and soon discovers that there have been other mysterious deaths, hearkening sinister ties to the present case.Now, as the sovereignty of Britain is in decline and an insurgent India is on the rise, Sandilands must navigate the treacherous corridors of political decorum to bring a cunning killer to justice...knowing the next victim is already marked to die.

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“Has just about everything: a fresh, beautifully realized exotic setting; a strong, confident protagonist; a poignant love story; and an exquisitely complex plot.”
--The Denver Post

“An engrossing tale of serial murder and the impending decline of the British Empire.”
--Publishers Weekly

“spellbinding.”
--The New York Times Book Review

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

About the Author:

Barbara Cleverly is the author of five novels of historical suspense, including The Damascened Blade, winner of the CWA Historical Dagger Award, The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Palace Tiger, and The Bee’s Kiss. She lives in Cambridge, England where she is now at work on the second Laetitia Talbot mystery, which Delta will publish in 2008.

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