Clean Break (PI Kate Brannigan, Book 4) by Val McDermid #BookReview #Crime #Thriller #Mystery

When a Monet is stolen from a stately home, Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan goes head-to-head with organized crime as she hunts the thieves through Europe. Meanwhile, someone is leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest. As Kate confronts some harsh truths in her own life, the case stretches her love and loyalty to

My Ten Best Reads in 2022 #Books #Reading #ThrowbackThursday

This year my reading has taken me to the Far East, Italy and Paris. Historic Fiction has frequently featured, mostly 20th Century and there has definitely been more murder mysteries. To read the whole review please click on the book cover. Journey to Paradise by Paula Greenlees This book describes post-war life for the British

The Convent of Christ in Tomar #UNESCO #Portugal #KnightTemplars

In October I visited the Convento de Cristo in the city of Tomar in central Portugal. Its construction by the Knight Templars began in 1160 alongside Tomar Castle. Returning from the Holy Land they helped regain Iberia from the Moors. When the monastic order of the Templars was persecuted in France it came under the

Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson #TuesdayBookBlog

From the pleasure palaces and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . . London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline ‘Caro’ Corsham