A swashbuckler of a storyKingmans flashes of wit enliven an engaging yarn Boston Globe Catherine MacDonald is astonished to receive from her twin brotherwho had apparently drowned a year earliera kashmiri shawl a caddy of unusual tea and a sheaf of traditional bagpipe music in his handwriting When had he sent it And why had he retitled a certain tune Not Yet Drownd Irresistibly she is drawn to India to search for answers With her stepdaughter and their two maids she follows an obscure trail of clues and in the course of their journey they meet botanists smugglers engineers soldiers and artistsas well as love and betrayal As they grow to understand certain Scottish and Indian paintings and music they discover unsuspected truths about the man they are seeking