Keeping Bad Company

Private investigator Liberty Lane faces the most challenging case of her career in this absorbing mysteryLondon, 1840. Private investigator Liberty faces a conundrum when her younger brother Tom, an East India Company employee, is unexpectedly summoned to London to give evidence at an official enquiry into the murder of a wealthy merchant's assistant, found with his throat cut en route to Bombay.A connection between the dead man and escalating rows with China over the lucrative opium trade has caused the government concern. Can Liberty solve a murder that took place six months previously almost five thousand miles away?"e;This is a delightful mix of historical mystery and cozy with a strong woman protagonist"e;"e;Liberty's fifth case nicely balances the exotic history of the East India Company, whose private army rules India for British gain, with a mystery that offers a wide range of possible evildoers"e;