Leela's BookLeela alluring, taciturn, haunted is moving back to Delhi from New York. She knows her return will unsettle precariously balanced lives. Twenty two years ago her sister was seduced by Vyasa, a young university lecturer. Now an eminent Sanskrit scholar, Vyasa is preparing for the unlikely marriage of his son, Ash, to the child of a Hindu nationalist. Compounding Leela's disruptive presence, Ash's hedonistic twin sister Bharati arrives from London,

A fourth book in the successful 'Pure Dead' series

One last impossible job is all that stands between Ryia and her freedom - but even the Butcher can't do it alone

and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street

the Holy Matriarch of Mann has ordered her troops to embark on a mission to the Mercian Free Ports

surrounded by family and friends

Raymond Carver

But if the plot is complex

and about the murder which they have brought in their wake

whose clearer eyes and compassionate natures reveal evil for what it really is

Jack Lark barely survived the Battle of the Alma

she is a threat that must be eliminated

when the king turns on you