A wedding in the Andamans. A dead woman no one invited.
At dawn she is found on the sand, a short walk from where the wedding was still dancing at midnight, laid out to look drowned on a beach the sea has never touched.
She is dressed for the celebration two hundred people danced through the night before. Half of them remember her face. Not one can give her a name.Every arrival on Havelock Island is checked against a ferry manifest. She is on none of them.
There is No Such Guest.
Then the storm closes in, the last ferry leaves without her, and Ira Venkataraman, the groom's cousin and once of Kolkata Police homicide, is trapped on an island with two hundred witnesses and a victim who does not exist. Somebody at this wedding knew exactly who she was.