Here are this week's new reviews and details of the current competition:
Latest Reviews:
Norman Price reviews Ariana Franklin's follow-up to her prize winning Mistress and the Art of Death - Death Maze (aka The Serpent's Tale) and finds it good but not as good as the first in the series;
Mike Ripley reviews the latest excellent espionage thriller from Alan Furst - The Spies of Warsaw;
Terry Halligan reviews Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner, set during the Universal Exhibition of 1889;
Maxine Clarke reviews the newest from Peter James: Dead Man's Footsteps, a story that encompasses 9/11 in "a realistic, exciting yet dignified way";
Geoff Jones reviews E V Seymour's The Last Exile and his advice is to stick with it as it gets much better
and I review the latest available on audio book in the Marjory Fleming series by Aline Templeton: Lying Dead - it's a fine police procedural series coupled with a brilliant narrator in the shape of Cathleen McCarron.
Current Competitions:
Win a copy of The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin*
* no restrictions on entrants (ends 31 July)
In the August edition of the BBc History magazine there is an article by architect and broadcaster Francesco Da Mosto about his history hero; Gentile Bellini 1429-1507.
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