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This is the story of how three families spanning two centuries and two countries - India and Britain - come together when an investigation of their pasts reveals forgotten crimes.
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When forensic photographer Claire Fleetwood, a young American 'with no history', inherits a house in London's East End from an aunt she never knew she had, she imagines she has been given a slice of the English dream. Then her best friend is brutally murdered, and Claire soon learns that the roots we dig up are not always the ones we wanted.Desperate to find a motive for the murder, Claire is drawn into a dangerous scientific expedition which takes her from Jack the Ripper's claustrophobic Whitechapel to the India of her newly discovered ancestors and the wild 'paradise' valleys of Tibet. On the journey her own life is overtaken and finally threatened by that of a distant relative who made the same journey a hundred years earlier, during the great mapping of the Himalayas.
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