Mad Queen's Chess

Inspector Chloe Robson is New Scotland Yard's newest rising star. But her brilliance begins to ebb when she's assigned to Kolkata to assist the local police in solving a number of cases oddly connected by a common theme: the game of chess. Members of an underground society, identified only as chess pieces, are subtly influencing powerful members of the British nobility, often using the Checking Piece Courier Service to carry obscure messages. As she struggles to adjust to Hindi culture, she must work with the sedate Inspector Vinay Banerjee of the Kolkata Police to answer two puzzling questions: who are these "chessman" and what is their objective?