Farmer Emie Bowles is found lying on his kitchen floor - strangled. A second strangulation follows and then a third suspicious death which provides a tenuous link between all three and leads Inspector Ramsay to the Alternative Therapy Clinic. Could one of the healers be a killer?

'Perceptive, convincing and ... compelling' Marcel Berlins, The Times
'The characters come live off the page and she delivers a convincing solution' The Spectator
'Watertight and exciting' Susan Hill, Good Housekeeping

'Jeffries wields a racy, complex plot, holding back a nifty terminal shock' Sunday Times
'The Mallorquin background is touched in with knowledge and affection; and Alvarez is a sympathetic and pleasant companion' Times Literary Supplement
'High marks for detection, urbanity and narrative drive' Irish Times

Death on Black Dragon River takes the contemporary Chinese Inspector Wang and his western-minded wife Rosina to Wang's birthplace, a village in the depths of rural China. They soon find themselves embroiled in local politics. Matters escalate further when the local Party Secretary is found bludgeoned to death with a bust of Karl Marx. The local police arrest a young tearaway: Wang, convinced the lad is innocent, is forced to dig ever deeper into a past that everyone in the village - including the inspector himself - would rather forget.

'Wang is, I think, destined to be one of the great fictional detectives' James Melville, Ham & High
'Not only an ingenious whodunit, but an inquest into the Cultural Revolution and the damage it did a whole generation.... Skilfully assembled, with people and places vividly rendered, and with history speeding through the narrative like adrenalin.' 'A wonderfully descriptive tale, which evokes a convincing picture of everyday life in the new China. It is also a very good traditional mystery.' Deadly Pleasures