In the Latin American city of San Felice, a brutally stabbed body is discovered in the garden of the fabulously wealthy, devastatingly good-looking Count Jorge. It is the Count himself! Who could have killed him just hours after one of this elegant dinner parties? Suspicion is bound to fall on many in polite society, including members of the Indian Embassy. A diplomatic incident threatens when the riding boots of the Ambassador's daughter are found under the Count's bed! What will ember next? A love affair? Blackmail? Who is the young man with the honeycoloured hair? And why does the Police Commissioner want a silk sari? Chandralekha Mehta's debut novel is a delicious cocktail of biting social satire and tightly plotted murder mystery set in the world of international diplomacy, where nothing is quite as it seems.