About the book: 2008 / Having learned about Lara McClintock's trip to Thailand, she is approached by Natalie Beauchamp, the wife of Lara's antiquarian friend, William Beauchamp, who has gone missing in Thailand. Natalie asks to make inquiries about her husband and gives Lara a package received by mail, in which, among strange notes, notices, photographs and newspaper clippings, she discovered three terracotta figurines of Buddha, one of which was split into two halves. Lara has no choice but to start a new investigation.…