Mark of the lion
By: Suzanne Arruda
Series: A Jade del Cameron mystery -- 1
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781444808285
Subjects: Jade Del Cameron (Fictitious character); Fiction; Women private investigators; Murder victims' families; Americans; Missing persons; History
Description: An ambulance driver during WWI, Jade del Cameron promises a dying soldier that she'll track down his brother. The only problem is that the soldier's mother, whom Jade goes to visit in London, insists that she had only one son. Jade reasons that the missing brother must have been born to another woman, conceived when the now deceased family patriarch was exploring East Africa. So off she goes to Nairobi, where she mingles with the colonial elite, kills a hyena, learns Swahili, fingers a drug smuggler, romances a man twice her age, uncovers a murder and attracts the attentions of a local witch.
Notes: Originally published: New York: New American Library, 2006; London: Piatkus, 2010.
Table of contents: title: After driving an ambulance along the front lines in the Great War, Jade del Cameron can fire a rifle with deadly precision. She may look like a pin-up, but she's smart and tough and doesn't shy away from a challenge. So when she agrees to fulfil a fighter pilot's dying wish; title: that she investigate the death of his father and track down his half-brother; title: she sets off for the wilds of colonial Africa...never expecting to become involved in murder.