BARBARA FLYNN's only skills are embroidery and being snob, and living in Victorian India that all she needs. But when she and her nagging mother find themselves in the middle of a terrible siege without even a change of clothes with the threat of painful death on all sides, she must fight for their survival. Lieutenant ANGUS FERGUSON, the only survivor from a Scotsman regiment, has only one keeping the civilians alive in desperate circumstances. The last thing he needs is the complication of a woman that he cares for. In a place where death could strike at any moment, and a time when physical love is Passion should be the furthest thing from anyone's mind.

A gruesome death. An airship full of suspects. Maliha Anderson, a brilliant and fiercely independent Anglo-Indian, is on her way home to make peace with her past and future. When the nurse of a wheelchair-bound General turns up dead, the accusations begin to fly as fast as the Sky Liner RMS Macedonia zips across the clouds. Unlike the baffled authorities, Maliha believes the General is innocent, and so the mystery begins. With landfall just hours away, Maliha must find the true murderer before the culprit escapes, even if it means putting herself in grave danger. Murder out of the Blue is the first installment in the Maliha Anderson steampunk murder mystery series which includes unforeseen twists, vivid descriptions, intriguing characters, and crisp, elegant prose. The book serves as a great introduction to the steampunk genre and as an homage to Agatha Christie in an alternative Edwardian setting.

1908. Ceylon. The British Empire tightens its grip on the world. Attempting to deal with questions of race and identity Maliha Anderson is faced with a murder that brings her face to face with her past. And it's a murder that's interwoven with international politics, that even she may not be able to solve.

Pneumatic trains, steampunk air-planes, karmic sex and bloody murder in 1908 India. When the heir to an industrial empire suffers a fatal accident, Maliha Anderson is called in to determine whether darker forces are at work. What she discovers goes deeper than any crime she's ever investigated. She is forced into intimate contact with the suppressed passions of post-Victorian society and goes far beyond the bounds of what's proper and decent, to bring the murderer to justice.

"They say that you can never go home again. Maliha Anderson knows that reunion with her family in south-east India will not be easy. Still, the worse she fears is the prospect of the marriage market. "Then violent death interrupts a family wedding. Unable to leave what seems an open and shut case, Maliha discovers the dark and damaged hearts of the people she thought she knew." The fourth book in the Maliha Anderson series of steampunk mystery/thrillers.

1909\. Maliha Anderson heads to South Africa to return Riette's daughter to her grandparents. But Johannesburg is in the grip of a terrifying wave of child kidnappings. The authorities refuse to investigate because it's only children of native Africans that are going missing. Maliha follows a complex web of clues that takes her to places where even her strength is tested in the most devastating case she's ever encountered.