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- ISBN 9781835013724
- Dimensions: 159 x 238mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The world’s most unlikely crime solving duo is back – and this time Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy and Indian hotel owner Avtar Mehta discover that family secrets are the most deadly.
When the tyrannical head of one of Delhi’s richest families is found dead inside a locked room within the historic Elephant House, Sister Agnes and Avtar must solve an impossible murder.
All the children have motives, but would any of them really kill their mother for her money? Or is her death payback for a much deeper debt?
As the city builds bonfires to celebrate the festival of Lohri, Sister Agatha and Avtar face backstabbing siblings, a gangster with untold influence, a police siege and a cigarette-stealing elephant. Avtar and Sister Agatha are on the hunt for a murderer, but is someone pulling their strings? When a killer is prepared to do the unthinkable, no one is safe and no one can be trusted.
Paul fell in love with India when he fell in love with his wife. He’s from Belfast. She's from Delhi. He’d already set his first book, a thriller called Blackwatertown, in Ireland, so she suggested he set his next one in India because they’re there so much. Paul has been a night club cook in New York, he made Pelé his dinner, smuggled a satellite dish into Cuba, was an award-winning BBC journalist, co-hosts the We’d Like A Word books and authors podcast, and is co-organiser of the Chiltern Kills crime festival and the Khushwant Singh LitFest London. He lives in Buckinghamshire.
