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Loading... The Blood Royalby Barbara Cleverly
None. I am not normally a fan of historical mystery, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and plan to read the rest of the series.  PennyMck | Nov 8, 2011 |  Back to the standard of the first in the series as far as capturing my attention. Adding a female character with wit and personality has spiced up the action. (  ) ElizabethAnnS | Oct 18, 2011 | I have enjoyed the Joe Sandilands series in the past, but this novel seems so childish. The characters and writing are immature, like reading a book for teens. I like the emergence of a new character, Lily Wentworth. Joe seems to be a tamer and older version of the Joe living in India. This story involves the Russian aristocracy, and the stories surrounding the death of Tsar Nicholas and his family. Again, the story is not well written. (  ) delphimo | Oct 4, 2011 | Twisty mystery, with a not entirely satisfactory conclusion. Commander Joe Sandilands, now high up in Scotland Yard, recruits a young Woman Police Constable to help him with a series of high-profile murders, quite possibly the work of Irish terrorists. Or not. There is also a young Russian woman on the loose. Lily is a wonderful character. (  ) readinggeek451 | Oct 1, 2011 |
Once again, Barbara Cleverly proves she’s one of the best of the neo-Golden Age authors. Her Joe Sandilands series, now nine books strong, has arrived at 1922, the Irish Rebellion and the years following the Russian Revolution. After a stint on the continent, Joe is back in harness at London’s Metropolitan Police. But the world is in flux and the head of CID is also called to head up the Special Irish Branch as well as maintain an eye on Czarist émigrés running a spy network out of Kensington Palace. When a politician is assassinated, Joe has to investigate. This is the best so far in a superior series, one fans of Charles Todd or Jacqueline Winspear won’t want to miss.
No descriptions found. Commander Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard is pulled into a sticky political situation when a war hero is gunned down and the life of a popular Englishman threatened, leaving Joe to find the person responsible before it is too late, but when the killer's identity is revealed, even the battle-hardened Sandilands is shocked.… (more) |
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