Missing in Shanghai: Jess Turner in London and Shanghai 3 (Diplomatic Crime Thriller Series)

A gripping, fast-paced thriller, set in present-day London and in Shanghai in 1984. Entrapment, betrayal, and espionage lurk beneath the pages, with an ending you won't see coming. Can be read as a standalone.

Diplomat Jess Turner is working on the China desk in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. It's her job to ensure the State visit of the Chinese Premier runs smoothly. But tensions are running high. As work progresses, Jess uncovers shocking, secret events that happened in Shanghai in 1984. A British Ambassador died, and another diplomat, Marianne Henderson, went missing in the city and has never been seen again. Not only that, all evidence Marianne ever existed vanished with her. When Jess starts asking questions, she is warned off. But she is caught up in a chain of events she has no power to control. As she digs into the past to find out what happened to Marianne, Jess finds herself in grave danger.

DI Tom Sangster is in London on secondment to Scotland Yard from the Australian Federal Police. When he is assigned to the armed police team protecting the Chinese Premier for his London visit, Tom becomes close to Jess again, and tries to help her. But can he save her.