Dark Clouds Over Nuala — Harriet Steel

The Inspector de Silva Mysteries are set in Ceylon in the 1930s and offer a colourful, relaxing read. In this second book in the series, the arrival in the hill town of Nuala of the heir to an English earldom signals more trouble for the hapless Inspector de Silva and a new mystery to solve. Throw in a mega-rich Romanian count, his glamorous countess and an enigmatic British army officer and the scene is set for another entertaining mystery.