New diplomatic crime novel ‘Missing in Shanghai’ released
Following the critically acclaimed ‘Deadly Diplomacy’ and ‘Deadly Deceit’ ex diplomat Jean Harrod returns with her next diplomatic crime novel masterpiece, ‘Missing in Shanghai’. To be published on the 17th May 2018.
A British Ambassador dead and a missing British diplomat in Shanghai, yet all records of these people have been obliterated!
Set in the present day in London and Shanghai in 1984. It is a story of entrapment, betrayal and espionage. The plot moves back and forth in time and unfolds through two perspectives – Diplomat Jess Turner the present day in London, and diplomat Marianne Henderson in Shanghai in 1984.
Jean Harrod worked in the British Embassy in Peking from 1980-83. In her role as diplomat, Jean was one of two officers sent to Shanghai to open a new British Consulate-General in 1984-85, her knowledge of Shanghai adds facts to her fiction