A good suspense thriller with a historical background. My disappointment is the lack of detail to the characters involved making it difficult to keep track of who is really who , the story races at the end as if the author is in a hurry to finish the book and to my mind there were grammatical e...
Anything about Stonehenge catches my eyes!This book is written similarly to Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code in that it contains many short, faast read chapters just filled with intrigue and excitement. It's hard to put down the book!Spoiler Alert!This tale is about Gideon whose supposed father has...
I read the book in German because last weekend I was with my parents without a book for reading and found this in their shelf. It looked interesting but from the very beginning and because I'm used to read books in English I had the feeling that I heard the english words. Maybe the translation wa...
Vicky had added a helpful footnote to her briefing, mentioning that Wales has more castles than any other country in the world but so far, Mitzi hasn’t seen any, let alone the one she wants to find. ‘Goddamned British drivers!’ She rides her horn at a giant yellow tractor crawling behind a road f...
‘I figured you didn’t do cream or sugar.’ ‘You figured right.’ He takes the drink nearest him. ‘Matthews said good things about you.’ She takes it as a thawing of the ice. ‘Nice to know. He mention anything about a raise, promotion or early retirement?’ Carter almost smiles. ‘Not that I heard. Jo...
Tom takes it as a good sign. ‘So? Am I to be deported? Or fed to the lions in St Mark’s Square?’ ‘Worse.’ The major slips into his seat behind the desk. ‘We’re going to throw you to the Italian press.’ ‘The press?’ ‘Fight fire with fire. A full media conference. The brigadier thinks the best way ...
I knew his tricks and powers all too well. Darkness was a conjurer. A demon. He would throw blankets over lovers and soil over the dead. Here, in prison, he was busily employed as the most terrible of torturers. By keeping out light, he helped the turnkeys crush our spirits and made it all the mo...