1. Death in Kashmir
Kashmir, 1947. Sarah Parrish joins the final winter gathering of the Ski Club of India at Gulmarg as British rule approaches its end. A skier’s fatal fall is followed by warnings from Janet Rushton, who reveals that the dead woman was connected with intelligence work and…
2. Death in Berlin
In 1953 Miranda Brand travels by train to divided Berlin with her British Army cousin and his family. A fellow passenger tells a story about diamonds looted during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, awakening fragments of Miranda's own childhood escape from wartime Europe before the…
3. Death in Cyprus
Amanda Derington is travelling from Port Said to Cyprus when she exchanges cabins with another passenger. Julia Blaine then dies from poison in the room Amanda should have occupied, leaving Amanda as the only witness to circumstances that point toward murder rather than illness. After disembarking…
4. Death in Kenya
Victoria arrives from England at Flamingo, the Rift Valley farm dominated by the formidable Lady Emily DeBrett. A killing with a panga can initially be explained as one of the final atrocities of the Mau Mau Emergency, but evidence points instead toward the closely connected settler…
5. Death in Zanzibar
Eighteen-year-old Dany Ashton is travelling to Zanzibar for a house party at her stepfather’s inherited home, the House of Shade. Before she even leaves London, a stolen passport and a murder place her under suspicion, while the unreliable but resourceful Lash Holden becomes an unexpected ally.…
6. Death in the Andamans
Copper Randal visits her friend Valerie in the Andaman Islands, where Valerie's father serves as Chief Commissioner. A Christmas picnic on a remote island is cut off by a cyclone, and the disappearance of one guest is followed by unmistakable murder. With boats disabled and communications…