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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna Photographer of Kleve, Queen of Secrets the Lost by Alison WeirCaroline Scott]]===
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Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets May 1921. Edie receives a raw deal by history, of all photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the wives back of Henry VIII she is the one who photograph. It is known a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for being rejectedfour years. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones Technically, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a sonhe has been "missing, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to her life believed killed" but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with that is not something that a different view of this young woman who saw widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the opportunity to live an independent life and took itword killed. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna Photographer of Kleve, Queen of Secrets the Lost by Alison WeirCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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In an alternate 1952Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, Soviet Troops control British Streetsbut much isn't. After D-Day goes horribly wrong Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only but some will soon have to be rescued by Russian soldiers from on the Eastother front, and against the Americans from coming into the westcontinent to put things right as they see it. Dividing Finding out that the war to the nation between themeast isn't working, London soon finds itself split due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in twoBerlin. The only way to shore things up, a wall running through and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it like a scar. When Jane Cawson He's husband is arrested for the murder aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of his former wifepower, Jane is determined so once he's succeeded he might be able to clear his namekeep a German presence in Europe. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right But will he still be able to keep the highest levels of "predatory American capitalists" and the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the murderous secret police… middle? [[Liberation Square The Man Who Killed Hitler by Gareth RubinAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]===
[[image:4starWhen 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 group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nye. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on her father's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush on Nye. When he offered her a job with his unit, she accepted.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionJust Another Girl on the Road by S Kensington|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Clark Ellory -->
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In 1930's Berlin, three 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandalable to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. Emmeline She is in the middle of such euphoria, a wayward young studentbut cannot feel it, Juliusfor she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, an anxious middlenursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-aged art expertbath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and Rachmann, she sees for the first time ever a mysterious art dealertattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlinthen, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghinside. Based And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on , as he has a true first-person narrative alternating with her story and unfolding through ? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazisreal Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticitycore when he was her literature professor? That's right, vanity and self-delusion. more bombshells… [[In The Full Light of the Sun Rabbit Girls by Clare ClarkAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Long Flight Home by Philip KazanA L Hlad]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- d'Eramo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273883.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273883/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and 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 look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785656341.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785656341/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]] <!-- Minette Walters -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1760632163.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760632163/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
At September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the beginning homes and lives of 1349 there is a glimmer of people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a hope that comfort for Susan following the ravages loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Black Death might be passingRoyal Air Force. In Devilish in Dorset Working with the population National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is well, because tasked with air-dropping hundreds of Lady Anne's strict rules about quarantinehoming pigeons into German-occupied France, which are regarded as heresy as they go against where many will not survive. As the strict rules of mission is planned, the churchbond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but their stores when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of food are dwindling a reunion for Susan and they know that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? Ollie remains… [[The Turn of Midnight Long Flight Home by Minette WaltersA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[Frieda Brightfall by Annabel AbbsJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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Married Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life. Visiting family in Munichsince has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, she becomes captivated Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the ideas of revolution curse surrounding them and free loveto save their lives. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. LawrenceSetting off with a soldier, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair Fey Lord and a tempestuous relationshipsullen Robin Hood, changing the course she becomes tangled in a maze of both their livesbetrayals, complicated relationships, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change vicious struggle for the course of literature forever. throne…[[Frieda Brightfall by Annabel AbbsJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass A Perfect Explanation by Susan FletcherEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cureEnid Campbell was a woman who, treatments have advanced. At on the beginning face of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living had everything. Leading the life through a window of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and the tales her mothersplendour, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones glamourous locales and the sounds they made on breakinghigh expectations. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her motherOnly Enid's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[House of Glass life has been plagued by Susan Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Kearsley -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1492687863.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1492687863/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]mental illness – undiagnosed, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Flitting between the present day untreated and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House threatening both Enid and all its inhabitantsthose close to her. In the present tense aspectsAfter losing custody of her children, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due Enid sells her son to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It her sister for £500 – but is told from the perspective this an act of Charleygreed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their true story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydiaof her own grandmother, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of Eleanor Anstruther has found the book is continuously shifted between Charleyperfect subject for an explosive, then Lydia moving and Jeanbeautifully well-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herselfwritten debut. [[Bellewether A Perfect Explanation by Susanna KearsleyEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies Equator by Manda ScottAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the horrific murder walls of a strikingly beautiful elderly ladytheme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, she's puzzled – whilst who bristles at the identity indignity of the woman has been erasedwhite man against Native 'Indian', it's clear that she has been killed who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the same way that traitors to man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the resistance were executed in World War Twobat of an eyelid. Solving But this book is about so much more than the mystery will lead Inès deep into 1870s USA, and the history of this woman – attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and back racial genocide. He finds himself trying to a time when find this book's version of Utopia, namely the men and women of 1940s France were engaged Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in a desperatetheir pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to lightwhere, who knows, Inès discovers things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – 's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… it… [[A Treachery of Spies Equator by Manda ScottAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Murmuration Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Robert LockAlison Weir]]===
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''Murmuration'' follows the lives Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a host raw deal by history, of all the wives of characters from 1863 to Henry VIII she is the present dayone who is known for being rejected. From Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the sexy ones, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a risqué comic son, Katherine of Aragon clung on to her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to a fortune teller, we see the birth her life but poor frumpy Anne of Blackpool Cleaves just rolled over and its steadily fading glamourmoved along. There is Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a hint different view of mysticism this young woman who saw the opportunity to the tale, with the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as live an anchor throughout the distinct narratives here, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the seaindependent life and took it. [[Murmuration Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Robert LockAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Liberation Square by Elizabeth H WinthropGareth Rubin]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townalternate 1952, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellSoviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, staring at Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the shadow of East, and Americans from the window bars cast onto west. Dividing the concrete nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall by the eveningrunning through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted husband is arrested for the rape murder of a white girlhis former wife, who later committed suicide. He Jane is resigned determined to clear his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allname. In doing so, love between Jane follows a black man trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and a white woman was never going soon finds herself desperate to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Mercy Seat Liberation Square by Elizabeth H WinthropGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]===
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Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland: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]] <!-- Syson Clark -->
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions In The Full Light of the Sun by Lydia SysonClare Clark]]===
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On In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealandscandal. Emmeline, a family of settlers struggle to make such wayward young student, Julius, an unforgiving place anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a home. When a ship appearsmysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers true story and newcomers come together in unfolding through the search for subsequent rise of Hitler and the childNazis, they uncover farthe discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island vanity and those who inhabit itself-delusion. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions In The Full Light of the Sun by Lydia SysonClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Phoenix of Florence by Anna MazzolaPhilip Kazan]]===
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AudreyDeep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a complex mix of flights of fancy massacre that destroys her family and seriousnesshome. Alone in the forest, wanting, needingshe meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be more than what everyone expects of a boy train and develop her, escapes from – and the straightjacket of her homedetermined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Where every actionAlong the way, every thoughtshe meets ex-soldier Celavini, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution whose journey to the wind and married way beneath Florence sees him for loveinvestigating two brutal murders. Now a widower As he digs further and remarrieduncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is propershares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the bastion ghosts of doing what is expectedtheir shared history to rest before it's too late... [[The Story Keeper Phoenix of Florence by Anna MazzolaPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The ButcherDeviation by Luce d's Daughter by Victoria GlendinningEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for historical fiction because it has such those of you who have not – this can be considered a wealth of intriguenext step. It begins, after all, plots with someone escaping Dachau and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and powerfulyou'd not blame her one minute, with so many to choose from that the well never seems as her career was deemed to run dry be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerGermans. In Munich, or those prepared she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to do anything be a camp for non-native civilians to get there. This booklook for work, howeveror company, is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppinor transport elsewhere, a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, official or join a conventotherwise. Since Agnes has disgraced herself But then she has no choice at allthe next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeyby then eyebrows are being raised. [[The ButcherDeviation by Luce d's Daughter by Victoria GlendinningEramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Count of 9 by David LongridgeErle Stanley Gardner]]===
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As the shadow ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the Second World War descends upon 1950s. It revolves around the planet, four people are explored in a tale detective duo of love Donald Lam and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those theft of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoilpriceless Bornean artefacts. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trustHowever, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themcase quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Silence in the Desert The Count of 9 by David LongridgeErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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