"TV true-crime journalist Rosalind Bengal of London receives a letter from her sister in India saying she suspects her husband, a famous Indian film director, murdered his first wife. Rosalind flies to Bombay and discovers true crime Indian style."
"A DAZZLING NOVEL OF MURDER AND MONSOONS, OF POISON AND SEDUCTION, OF LONG-BURIED SECRETS AND LETHAL BETRAYALS ..."@en
"Een Schots-Indiase journaliste probeert in Bombay haar zwager, een bekende filmregisseur, te ontmaskeren die ze verdenkt van moord op zijn eerste vrouw en enkele travestieten."
"Rosalind Bengal is a radio journalist and producer for true-crime TV. After years in London, she still wakes with the cinnamon taste of cassia leaves in her mouth, a dream from her childhood in India when her father taught her about meteorology and her mother about alchemy. Then a letter comes from her sister, now married to a famous Bombay film director: "People tell me he murdered his first wife.""
"Miranda has taken to sending Rosalind cryptic postcards all the way from Bombay which compels Rosalind to do what she would never do on her own ... return to the land of her birth, to the country that still haunts her after twenty years abroad."@en