
The Waiting Room
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From the bestselling author of When I’m Gone and Working Fire comes a gripping novel about a...

The Far Field
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Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner...

Gallowstree Lane (Collins and Griffiths #3)
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Please don't let me die. Please don't. The final words of teenager Spencer Cardoso as he bleeds out...

The Secret of Drulea Cottage (Betwixt the Sea and Shore #1)
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Briony Fairborn, a midwife in eighteenth-century Scotland, comes from a family shrouded in scandal....
Historical Fantasy

Blood Truth (Black Dagger Legacy, #4)
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As a trainee in the Black Dagger Brotherhood's program, Boone has triumphed as a soldier and now...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Trip to Jerusalem in Books
Oct 24, 2021
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Trip to Jerusalem ( Nicolas Bracewell book 3)
By Edward Marston
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For Lord Westfield's Men, every high road leads to death. When the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London's theatres, the acclaimed troupe of players called Lord Westfield's Men take to the high road to seek out fresh audiences. But wherever they go, they are thwarted by misfortune, and are baffled by mysteries. Their scripts are stolen, their players abducted. A dead man walks, and a beautiful woman hears the voice of God. Only one man is clever enough to match swords with the troupe's burgeoning troubles. Upon Nicholas Bracewell, the company's bookholder and mainstay, falls the burden that may cost him his life - as they head for an ancient inn called the Trip to Jerusalem, where the last act of a bloody drama is about to begin.
Ok this is the 3rd book in the Nicolas Bracewell series and was not to bad. Another instalment of Nicolas saving the Westfield group while having a few stories in the background! I do like this series it’s fun read.

The Mark (Detective Louise Blackwell #4)
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Brutal attacks. A sinister conspiracy. Time is running out. In the quiet seaside town of...

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Dec 27, 2022

imPerfect Magic (The imPerfect Cathar #1)
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After hundreds of years of dying, you'd think I would've perfected it by now... One moment I'm a...
Supernatural Dark Humor Mystery Suspense

David McK (3562 KP) rated Lord of the Silver Bow (Troy #1) in Books
Nov 13, 2022
Still as good as ever. I've yet to find someone to match Gemmell for this style of work.
<<2011 review>>
While perhaps more famous for his Drenai series of books (that began with 'Legend'), throughout his life David Gemmell wrote many other books as well.
At the time of his death in 2006, he was working on a novel called "Fall of Kings": the final part of a trilogy that began with with this novel. The trilogy, as a whole, was a re-working of the story of Troy: set during the early bronze age and with some famous (as well as some not-so-famous) characters from that legend all making an appearance. This first novel introduces us to some of those characters and sets the scene for what is to come ...
As it's a Gemmell book, it's a pretty safe bet what to expect: the man was famous for writing heroic fantasy, with his characters as (nearly always) flawed in some respect: the main characters in this book (particularly Helikaon) are no exception to that rule. While it could be argued that the novel could do with a bit of trimming in some of the slower sections, this is still an impressive piece of work.