A Grave Affair — Shelley Smith

When Edmund Burke, MP meets the woman he loves on a sunny afternoon, he cannot know that it is for the last time, or that a brilliant career is about to collapse in a scandal of murder and blackmail. Edmund, deep in negotiations that promise peace in the Middle East, is a target of nationalist fanatics who will stop at nothing to remove the main obstacle to their success. And he's about to discover where the loyalties of friends and family lie, as the police cast their net ever closer...