The ShadowA ritual killing. An ancient curse. What's myth and what's murder? After a bruising encounter with a terrorist group, Detective Kamil Rahman has decided to hand in his resignation to the Met and set up a detective agency with his friend Anjoli. But when his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Kamil agrees to take the case, as long as Anjoli can accompany

competent stuff

whose unearthly singing voice floats through the house

But for the heroes of the New Republic

a vicious eco-war between the Welsh and a multi-national mining conglomerate

steady job

I adored it

starting with a chance meeting Trickey had with Erwin Rommel before the War

A magical book

minding her own business and bothering no one

When members of the original investigation start to disappear

reinforcing Ackroyds grand theme that place and history create

ever-memorable Paula Spencer