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Author: Barbara Cleverly

📘 The last Kashmiri rose by Barbara Cleverly

Set in 1922 Panikhat, fifty miles from Calcutta, the novel follows Joe Sandilands of the Bengal Greys as he investigates a series of five suspicious deaths of officers’ wives. Each woman met a violent end that mirrored a fear she never voiced—a fire, a cobra bite, a fall, drowning, and a suicide‑like self‑cut. The only clue linking the cases is the appearance of small red roses on each grave on the anniversary of the deaths. With the help of Indian police havildar Naurung Singh and the emerging field of psychological profiling, Sandilands must track the killer who knows exactly who will receive the next Kashmiri rose before time runs out.

First publish date: 2002

Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery

Authors: Barbara Cleverly

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