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Having enjoyed, The Strangler Vine, I was really looking forward to reading this novel. My excitement over another Avery and Blake mystery was short-lived.I feel like the author could do away with Avery and the book would have been much better. I think I would much rather read a mystery featuring Bl...
Note: Even though this is Book 2 in the series, it works just fine as a stand alone novel. Set in Victorian England, Captain William Avery has made his way to London (leaving a pregnant wife behind in the countryside) to meet up with his former colleague Jeremiah Blake, who he befriended in India. B...
While this is the second book in the Blake & Avery series, it is the first one I have read. The two protagonists are newly returned from the wars in Afghanistan, and widely touted as heroes. As a result, they are hired to investigate a murder that the police are ignoring, but which has captured the ...
Before World War I the belief that monarchs ruled by divine right was alive and well in Europe—at least among the monarchs themselves. George, Nicolas and Wilhelm were cousins who reigned in Britain, Russia and Germany during the years leading up to the war. By the end of the war Tsar Nicolas and ...
OK, I haven't read this book -- I will -- but I was pissed after reading a review. Here's part of a review that demonstrates why I often hate reviews in the NY Times Book Review. Last two paragraphs: “George, Nicholas and Wilhelm” is an impressive book. Ms. Carter has clearly not bitten off more th...
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