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===[[Silence in Photographer of the Desert Lost by David LongridgeCaroline Scott]]===
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As May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the shadow post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the Second World War descends upon the planetphotograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four people are explored in a tale of love and friendshipyears. Henri Technically, fulfilling he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a family tradition in joining young widow can believe. She hangs on the Foreign Legionword 'missing', Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As disbelieving the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themword killed. [[Silence in Photographer of the Desert Lost by David LongridgeCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir|Full Review]] <!-- Dalrymple -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140886553X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140886553X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] It was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlers. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially a decent man, particularly by the standards of the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the force, but at the age of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and torture. [[In Gold's Name by Marcus Dalrymple|Full Review]] <!-- Hall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Varese -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0715653008.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0715653008/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Spirit Photographer Man Who Killed Hitler by Jon Michael VareseAndre Pronovost]]===
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Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the life story Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the real-life father of spirit photographyNazis, William Hbut much isn't. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here Some of her is Edward Moodystuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, who was a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady and now owns his own photography studio in Bostonagainst the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Moody is dismissive of spiritualism Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, yet considers himself due to be doing a service Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to the bereaved by fabricating family photographs heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in which the ghost of a departed loved one appearsBerlin. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one The only way to shore things up, and superimposing it on repair the negative being developedsplits, so that it seems is to appear hazily in kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the backgroundman to do it. Looking back from today He's high-tech perspectivearistocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, itso once he's hard succeeded he might be able to see how anyone could have been fooled, but suffering people keep a German presence in desperate situations often want Europe. But will he still be able to believe; keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the same goes for séances. middle? [[The Spirit Photographer Man Who Killed Hitler by Jon Michael VareseAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Precept: A Novel Just Another Girl on the Road by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonS Kensington]]===
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Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a farmhouse and a group of German deserters who had raped her. Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about as good as she got when Farr and Valentine intervened and finished the arrival group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of Frederick Douglass in Irelandthe Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. And even more excited that his Quaker Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have crush on itNye. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as When he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalistoffered her a job with his unit, Daniel O'Connellshe accepted. [[Precept: A Novel Just Another Girl on the Road by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonS Kensington|Full Review]]
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa MariaBerlin, which 1989. Miriam is what in the ruins middle of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiececity freshly united, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young Wall newly broken down and oldpeople able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. Molly uses She is in the history to entertain the touristsmiddle of such euphoria, but therecannot feel it, for she has not left her father's more too it than she knowsapartment in weeks, particularly nursing him as the history of the building he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is also very different, when he gasps the history of name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the Vannini familyfirst time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the director of real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the museum. core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Rabbit Girls by Daniel PeltzAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary The Long Flight Home by Lucy WorsleyA L Hlad]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the famous story homes and lives of Henry VIII's love affair a people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of Aragonher parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, Anne's execution for adulteryand especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and Henry's subsequent marriage forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Jane Seymour, which finally produces Britain and join the much longed for birth of a male heirRoyal Air Force. This timeWorking with the National Pigeon Service, the story he soon meets Susan and is told through the eyes tasked with air-dropping hundreds of an important but often neglected player homing pigeons into German- Henry's young daughteroccupied France, Marywhere many will not survive. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by As the divorce and she mission is treated terribly by a father under the influence of planned, the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows her through these awful years bond between Ollie and you canSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie't help but root s plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events. Susan and Ollie remains… [[Lady Mary The Long Flight Home by Lucy WorsleyA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Brightfall by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786072424.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072424/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Parentations by Kate MayfieldJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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In eighteenth century London, sisters FitzgeraldRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, Constance and Verity are changed forever retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when they become entwined with her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the Fowler family - curse surrounding them and charged to save their lives. Setting off with protecting a mysterious child. Fast forward to the London of 2015soldier, a Fey Lord and the sisters are still waiting - with no way a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of knowing if the boy is alive or dead. Far awaybetrayals, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal lifecomplicated relationships, but also forces them to keep and a secret vicious struggle for two hundred years. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of death. throne…[[The Parentations Brightfall by Kate MayfieldJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Perfect Explanation by David LawsEleanor Anstruther]]===
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I've played Neville Chamberlain in publicEnid Campbell was a woman who, you know – a full one-line in a ''Beyond on the Fringe'' sketch, where he says he has a piece face of paper from Hitler. I then proceeded to prove it was a paper bag, in fact, by blowing it up and immediately bursting ithad everything. That is what that paper was to many – Leading the indicator life of a lot an aristocrat – full of hot airinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and only leading to an unwelcome noise, when WW2 actually struck anywayhigh expectations. Certainly, not everyone was keen on his appeasement with the NazisOnly Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and this book opens with the first-person reportage those close to her. After losing custody of one such manher children, keen on showing proof Enid sells her son to Chamberlain that he should not sign the Sudetenland away. But he only got so far before his story was cut off entirely her sister for £500 – leaving a grand-daughter, Emma, at Cambridge but under a cloud is this an act of ignominygreed, to pick or an act of desperation? Exploring the lasttrue story of her own grandmother, barest threads of Eleanor Anstruther has found the story up perfect subject for an explosive, moving and see just what did happen to himbeautifully well-written debut. Oh, and her help has just come out of prison… [[Munich: The Man Who Said No! A Perfect Explanation by David LawsEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Kin Equator by Snorri KristjanssonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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Unnthor Reginsson It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the uncrowned king indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the valley; retired Viking farmer way man – and rumoured owner woman, of a large hoard course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with goldrushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He is gathering his clanfinds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, a grand reunion after ten years of absence. It where everything is time for strengthening family bondsupside down, feastingpeople walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, telling tall tales and remembering shared historywhere, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Kin Equator by Snorri KristjanssonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
''Templar Silks'' is a great example Poor, frumpy Anne of historical fiction done well. It's Cleaves always gets a fictitious account raw deal by history, of William Marshal's time in Jerusalem during all the late 1100s during a brief spell wives of calm before Henry VIII she is the death of King Baldwin to leprosy in 1185. Elizabeth Chadwick has written a previous book about William Marshal but glossed over this period in his life one who is known for lack of researchbeing rejected. In this book she goes back to fill in Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the gaps having spent time studying this particular period of his life. Her main problemsexy ones, as she acknowledges at Jane the end dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of the book, is that virtually nothing is known Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Marshal's time in JerusalemCleaves just rolled over and moved along. We know when and why he went, we know Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the major power players were, we know when he came back opportunity to live an independent life and that is about took it. So understandably, this book is probably more fiction than history but it is brilliantly written none the less. [[Templar Silks Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Elizabeth ChadwickAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Revenge Liberation Square by Mitchell & MitchellGareth Rubin]]===
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''Revenge'' opens with the news that Charles Stuart In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to return to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the throne as Charles II of Englandwest. A young womanDividing the nation between them, Ruth CourtneyLondon soon finds itself split in two, is returning home to her familya wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's farmhouse, excited at husband is arrested for the prospect murder of a new King. She arrives home, howeverhis former wife, Jane is determined to find her home ablaze and surrounded by renegade soldiersclear his name. In doing so, supporters Jane follows a trail of Cromwell, corruption that leads her family nowhere right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to be found. stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Revenge Liberation Square by Mitchell & MitchellGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionThe Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall]]===
Maybe you've heard about Scarcross Hall? Hidden on the old coffin path that winds from the village to the moor top, the villagers only speak of it in hushed tones - of how it's a foreboding place filled with evil[[image:4star. Mercy Booth has lived there since birth, and she's always loved the grand house and its isolation, but a recurrence of strange events begins to unsettle her. From objects disappearing through to a shadowy presence sensed in the house, mysteries come to light that can only be solved by Mercy unearthing long-buried secrets. And will a dark stranger help Mercy protect everything she has come to love or tear it from her grasp? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Llewellyn Clark -->
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===[[Walking Wounded In The Full Light of the Sun by Sheila LlewellynClare Clark]]===
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David Reece was called In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up in 1941 and sent to fight in Burmainto a scandal. On his return in 1946Emmeline, he finds a return to civilian life quite beyond him andwayward young student, after a brawlJulius, is sent to a military psychiatric hospital. Therean anxious middle-aged art expert, he is treated by Daniel Carterand Rachmann, a psychiatrist whose instincts tell him that talking therapies can work with men like Davidmysterious art dealer, but who is working live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a profession enthusiastically adopting invasive procedures such as ECT true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and lobotomy. ''Walking Wounded'' follows both men as they both try the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to come to terms with traumatic experiences explore authenticity, vanity and find a place in a world moving on from WWIIself-delusion. [[Walking Wounded In The Full Light of the Sun by Sheila LlewellynClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Tattooist Phoenix of Auschwitz Florence by Heather MorrisPhilip Kazan]]===
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So, you arrive Deep in all ignorance at Auschwitz, and see the horror thereTuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and immediately swear to survive home. Alone in the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itforest, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demandshe meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the extent you get the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to stick your neck out and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the political wing of the SSway, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building the placeshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? The man whose real life story inspired this novel did all that, journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and survived uncovers links to tell his own family history, Celavini must revisit the tale, but past he also managed to do something even more daringshares with Onoria, and unexpected – he dared to invest in the hope in a burgeoning love that he found in they can lay the campghosts of their shared history to rest before it's too late... [[The Tattooist Phoenix of Auschwitz Florence by Heather MorrisPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Deviation by Rachel HalliburtonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Rachel Halliburton's debut novel opens For those of you who have read books of life in London in January 1797. Benjamin Westthe Nazi camps – and of course, President for those of the Royal Academyyou who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, is reflecting on the past year's scandal involving the Provisesafter all, father with someone escaping Dachau and daughterfleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and worries that he handled everything poorly. From the start the bookyou's figurative language is appropriately full of colour d not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and painterly techniques: 'He had intended sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to deal with them honourablylook for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, but now everyone in London was saying he had noteither official or otherwise. It was as if somebody had dropped a small amount of ivory black paint But then the next chapter sees her going back into yellow orpiment on a palette – the camp next to Dachau once more he prodded , and stirred the memory, the murkier it becameby then eyebrows are being raised.' [[The Optickal Illusion: A very eighteenth-century scandal Deviation by Rachel HalliburtonLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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On the slopes ''The Count of Mt Hood 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationthe 1950s. Josh Kinninger is inspired by It revolves around the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored detective duo of Donald Lam and with his world in turmoilBertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. Beginning a journey westwardHowever, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupttheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[W The Count of 9 by John BanksErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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