No Reserve by Felix Francis: packed full of suspense and mystery – book review –
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www.thestar.co.uk— Master of the racing blockbuster Felix Francis is back in the saddle and ready to take us over bumpy ground in this hard-hitting new crime mystery which explores the vast amounts of money that change hands in the sale rings where cash is staked on untested, unridden and as-yet-unnamed yearling colts in the hope they will turn out to be world beaters. It was after the death of his father, the legendary jockey and thriller writer Dick Francis, in 2010, that Francis Junior, who trained as a...
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk—The Tuscan Daughter by Tessa Harris: packed with real history, suspense, surprises, romance and danger – book review –. Tessa Harris – whose thrilling historical novels include The Paris Notebook and The Light We Left Behind – sweeps us away to the stunning ancient city of Lucca in an emotion-packed and heart-pounding story which explores the perilous divisions created by Mussolini’s alliance with Hitler, and the little-known role of women in the partisan offensive. Of the 200,000 known partisans in Italy, some estimates reckon that a quarter were women who acted principally as messengers, and even included...
www.thestar.co.uk—The Tuscan Daughter by Tessa Harris: packed with real history, suspense, surprises, romance and danger – book review –. Tessa Harris – whose thrilling historical novels include The Paris Notebook and The Light We Left Behind – sweeps us away to the stunning ancient city of Lucca in an emotion-packed and heart-pounding story which explores the perilous divisions created by Mussolini’s alliance with Hitler, and the little-known role of women in the partisan offensive. Of the 200,000 known partisans in Italy, some estimates reckon that a quarter were women who acted principally as messengers, and even included...
www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk—A Plague of Serpents by K.J. Maitland: packed with real history, treachery and espionage – book review –. And as the monarch’s enemies prepare to strike again, the king’s most mysterious intelligencer, Daniel Pursglove – a man with a past and an uncertain future – is tasked with infiltrating the plotters, or face incarceration in notorious Newgate Gaol and, ultimately, a traitor’s death. Karen Maitland, much-loved author of a string of spooky medieval mysteries but writing here as K.J. Maitland, returns with her intriguing Crown spy Daniel Pursglove in the fourth and final book of a thrilling...