The Moonstone 9781847925626 Over the years

Over the years

a powerful and mysterious man with a shadowy past

The most chilling case of Scarpetta's career

Rowan du Preez

Sara had no idea that Berlin could be so thrillingly irreverent or that sex could be so intoxicatingly wonderful

The Moonstone 9781847925626 Over the yearsA fabulous gem is looted from a sacred Hindu shrine during the siege of an Indian city. With his dying breath, one of the shrine's guardians tells Colonel John Herncastle that the Moonstone will have its revenge. Fifty years later, Hoencastle bequeaths the diamond to his niece, Rachel Verinder as an eighteenth birthday gift. An act of generosity? Or merely trying to transfer the curse? Rachel receives the jewel at a family gathering but when the next