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A family secret. A deadly past. A truth worth killing for.
When retired Scotland Yard inspector Quintin Quigley is invited to High Fields, a once-renowned tea estate in the misty Nilgiri hills of Ooty, he expects a peaceful escape from the world of crime.
Instead, he finds a dead man in a locked room.
As the investigation unfolds, Quigley discovers a family divided by decades-old grudges, suspicious rivalries, buried scandals, and whispers of a hidden treasure lost somewhere in the estate's troubled past. Every member of the household seems to have something to conceal—and some secrets are worth killing to protect.
But the mystery reaches far beyond a single murder.
Delving into the history of High Fields, Quigley begins to uncover a tangled web of deception stretching back through generations. Old photographs, forgotten manuscripts, unexplained disappearances, and clues hidden within the estate gradually reveal that the truth has been waiting in the shadows for years.
Surrounded by mist-covered tea gardens, an isolated country estate, and a family whose loyalties are increasingly uncertain, Quigley must separate truth from deception before the killer strikes again.
In a world of fine tea, fragile loyalties, and dangerous secrets, the greatest vintage of all may be the truth—if it doesn't cost him his life.