Nev March’s incomparable Captain Jim and Lady Diana return to India!

The Silversmith's Puzzle (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries #4) 
by Nev March                 

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As always I’m absolutely consumed with Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Diana. I’m so glad they’ve returned to India—a breath taking, colorful and magical place, along with its squalor, religious differences, underlying tensions and gathering troubles for the colonial British.

Diana’s parsi family welcomes them. Diana’s parsi friends and acquaintance? No! Jim and Diana are beyond the tight knit community’s social pale. Jim hurts to see his wife treated so. Diana walks through it all, sad but unrepentant for having married outside the circle. (I love how they relate with each other)

However that’s not their main concern. Adi, Diana’s brother, has been arrested for the murder of his friend and business partner Satya Rastogi. Satya was the scion of a powerful parsi family who are jewellers. 

What Jim and Diana will uncover is theft, corruption, murder, and stolen gold.

The path to the truth is behind veiled references and clouded by secrecy. Even when the shocking facts are revealed we are left with the idea of a malignant force behind all that’s happened. Jim’s hero Sherlock Holmes is referred to constantly leaving us to wonder who is Jim’s Professor Moriarty?

Family is important to Jim. He has none. His quest for who his father might be never Leaves him.

Returning to India prompts Jim’s earliest memories, increasing his wondering about who his father is.

An action packed, fabulous read!

A Minotaur Books ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.