1889. Faro’s plans to meet his companion Imogen Crowe in Germany are shattered by a Royal command to escort Prince George of Luxoria from boarding-school in Scotland back to his strife-torn country. With assassins in pursuit even the Orient Express cannot guarantee their survival and Faro has a deeply personal reason for ensuring the prince’s safety - a secret concerning his birth that could destroy them both. (See ‘The Missing Duchess’).
Alanna Knight MBE has published more than sixty novels (including sixteen in the acclaimed Inspector Faro series, and seven featuring his daughter Rose McQuinn), as well as non-fiction, true crime and several books on Robert Louis Stevenson, numerous short stories and two plays since her award-winning first book ‘Legend of the Loch’ in 1969. A founding member and Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Writers and of the Edinburgh Writer’s Club, born and educated on Tyneside, she has two sons and two granddaughters and lives in Edinburgh.