The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret by Nev March. Published in 2023 by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271. Pp: 314. Price: USD 29.
Nev March (Nawaz Merchant) locates her third novel, The Spanish Diplomat’s Secret, on board the HMS Etruria, a ship bearing her two endearing detectives, Captain Jim Agnihotri, also known as James O’Trey, and his wife, Lady Diana Framji — the couple who has accompanied March over her three novels. They met in Murder in Old Bombay where Agnihotri was appointed by Diana’s brother, Adi, to investigate the tragic and untimely......