Missing in Shanghai. By Jean Harrod

A gripping, fast-paced thriller, set in present-day London and in Shanghai in 1984.
Entrapment, betrayal, and espionage lurk beneath the pages, with an ending you won't see coming.

Jess Turner is working on the China desk in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It's her job to ensure the State visit of the Chinese Premier runs smoothly. But tensions are running high. As work progresses, Jess uncovers shocking, secret events that happened in Shanghai in 1984. A British Ambassador died, and another diplomat, Marianne Henderson, went missing in the city and has never been seen again. Not only that, all evidence Marianne ever existed vanished with her. When Jess starts asking questions, she is warned off. But she is caught up in a chain of events she has no power to control. As she digs in the past to find out what happened to Marianne, Jess finds herself in grave danger.

I was asked directly by Jean if I would like to review her third book seeing as I did a brilliant job reviewing her second book deadly deceit which  I have enjoyed by jean.
My thoughts on this book is it does grab you from the very first page and makes you want to carry on until there is no more pages to read.
How does jean come up with these brilliant stories I don't know but her writing style is one I cant get enough off. For me this is going to be one of them books what would go on the list of best reads in 2018 (if I did that of course).
So lets get to the story and ill try and not give anything away so jess turner is working in china on the foreign and commonwealth desk and it is her job to see the state visit runs smoothly.
But with the tension running high with the work progresses jess is floored when someone mentioned the previous employer who use to do jess's job and with nothing on the database of her disappearance jess is determined to find out what has happened to Marianne. Jess is shocked on how its all was hushed up and no trace is found in the foreign office regarding Marianne only that she was the presidents assistant and was the only one around when he was found dead.
I did think I knew who it was halfway through the book and to my delight I was but wasn't expecting that and who had helped as well this is one book where you don't have to read the first two books as this one just grabs you from the page all the way to the last and leaving you wanting more all the time.