#9 The Felse Investigations

Mourning Raga

Ellis Peters
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As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress back to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjli is no sinecure—and the task of delivering her back to her family proves even less easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country—remote, mysterious—and often shatteringly brutal...
Genres: MysteryFictionCrimeBritish LiteratureIndiaHistorical MysteryHistorical FictionMystery ThrillerHistoricalDetective
189 Pages

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