Ellis Peters: Mourning Raga (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
Dominic Felse and his girlfriend escort a young girl through India and investigate a murder in this mystery from the bestselling author of Fallen Into the Pit.

When his girlfriend's beautiful but erratic film-star mother, Chloe, calls to ask a favor, Dominic Felse fears the worst. But she makes the couple an offer they can't refuse: an all-expense-paid trip to India to escort Anjili Kumar, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Chloe's costar, to stay with her father while her mother is filming in England.

But Dominic's fears are not unfounded, and they soon discover that traveling with the spoiled, precocious Anjili is no vacation -- and the task of delivering her back to her family will be less than easy. For behind the colorful, smiling mask of India that tourists see, there is another country -- remote, mysterious, and often shatteringly brutal... .

Mourning Raga is the 9th book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Ellis Peters: Mourning Raga. The Felse Investigations. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504027144 (December, 2015), eBook, 8.57 MB (ca. 189 p.), $8.99.

Ellis Peters: Mourning Raga (UK 1988 / 4th printing)

From the Publisher:
As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress back to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjli is no sinecure - and the task of delivering her back to her family proves even less easy.

Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country - remote, mysterious - and often shatteringly brutal...

"Strongly plotted story of kidnapping and murder in a well-observed Delhi. Exciting and humane." H. R. F. Keating, The Times

Ellis Peters: Mourning Raga. A Dominic Felse Whodunnit. Headline, ISBN: 0747231214 (May, 1988 / 4th printing, no date given), 192 p., £2.99.