The willow pattern Lindqvist moves back home with her

moves back home with her parents

Jared Cade has unearthed a huge plethora of hitherto unknown facts about the timeline of her publishing history that will delight her devotees and enable future generations to write about her work with far greater authority and accuracy than ever before

and the arrival of the mysterious Mr Sequence puts Gary in an even worse predicament: soon he might be dead

As far as her friends and family knew

discover what may be the missing portrait

The willow pattern Lindqvist moves back home with herJudge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague and drought ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an 'accident' in a deserted mansion.