**When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death,
she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that
threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author
of Singapore Sapphire.
**
Singapore, 1910--Harriet Gordon has found fulfillment at last. Her
young ward, Will, has settled into his new home with Harriet and her
brother, Julian. And Harriet's employment as a typist at the Straits
Settlements Police Force has given her an intriguing way to occupy her
time and some much-needed financial independence. But when her friend
and employer, Inspector Robert Curran, is called to the scene of a
brutal murder and Harriet is asked to comfort the victim's family, her
newfound sense of contentment is abruptly shattered.
Sylvie Nolan, the new and much-younger wife of Lieutenant Colonel John
Nolan, has been bludgeoned to death in her bedroom. The tightly knit
military community in Singapore quickly closes ranks to hinder Curran's
investigation, and Harriet realizes that her friendship with the
colonel's sister might prove useful. But to get close enough to the
family's secrets, Harriet must once again face her painful past, and
Curran is forced to dredge up some long-buried secrets of his own. And
when more shocking deaths occur that all seem linked to Sylvie's murder,
Harriet and Curran discover that they too are in the sights of a callous
killer. . . .
