High CountryIt's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search and rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own or died in the park. Needing an out of park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to

excitement and pathos to keep a dozen less profligate and inventive novelists busy for years

Brunetti will have to once again face the blurred line that runs between the criminal and the non-criminal

he knows he must be able to make a profit from it somehow

'Will Dean writes a mean thriller

when the last battle of the Cold War is about to begin

and that hazards lie in wait for everyone

The next can't come soon enough for me' Daily Mail

West therefore has to act and quickly

the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign

is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action

Stretching from the streets of London to the brothels of Venice and all the way to ruined palaces of Constantinople

should try to prevent the truth from being revealed