Quercus Publishing Crucible of Secrets
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Quercus Publishing
Description: Knowledge is power, and when it gets in the wrong hands it can be lethal. Alchemy and murder combine in a gripping race against time from the CWA award-winning author of The Seeker.' One of the best writers of historical crime' The Times Aberdeen, 1631. University librarian Robert Sim takes receipt of a gift of books recently arrived from overseas, mysterious works on alchemy and hermetics - the pursuit of ancient knowledge. By nightfall he has been brutally murdered. His colleague and good friend Alexander Seaton is left with the task of hunting for clues as to his killer's motive, as well as locating the missing books. What did Sim discover in the package, and what makes these books so dangerous?. Quercus Publishing Crucible of Secrets - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781849163163
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ISBN: 9781849163163
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Author: Clemens A. Schoonderwoert
Rating: 5
Review: This very entertaining book is the 3rd instalment of the wonderful "Alexander Seaton" series from the Scottish author, Shona MacLean. Storytelling is once more of a superb quality, all figures featuring in this thrilling story come splendidly to life, and not to forget the atmosphere and historical times of Aberdeen, Scotland, and the surrounding countryside are wonderfully pictured and described by the author. The book is set in Aberdeen, in the year AD 1631, and it starts off with a very short but intriguing prologue which will form the essential basis of this tremendous tale. Like I said earlier, this thrilling Scottish historical mystery is set in the year AD 1631, and our protagonist, Alexander Seaton, who's now a Regent at the Marischal College, which is part of Aberdeen University along with King's College, will come into action once again to solve some serious heinous murders. The main story is fast-paced and action-packed, and it starts off straightaway with the murder of, Robert Sim, the librarian of Marischal College due to something he found out while cataloguing a benefaction of books. Shortly afterwards a weaver by the name of, Bernard Cummins, also gets murdered by the same hand as Robert Sim, and the intriguing part is that this same, Bernard Cummins, has recognised someone in Aberdeen who goes by the name of, Nicholas Black, but nobody else seems to know and has heard of this same man who's called, Nicholas Black. What will follow is for Alexander Seaton to find out who this Nicholas Black is, while at the same time to investigate the killings of Sim and Cummins, and when he's finally able to identify the killer Alexander will come in for a nasty surprise when certain tangles of this web of deceit will unravel themselves in the end, because the murderer is someone who's quite close to him. Very much recommended, for this episode is another excellent addition to this great series, and that's why I like to call this tale: "A Fantastic Scottish Historical Secretive Thriller"!
Author: Smartyfartblast
Rating: 3
Review: Much plot weaving for the first 99% of the book leading to an unsatisfactory denouement revealed through clues as obscure as the hermetic knowledge sought in the red herrings of the previous plot lines. Not up to her previous offerings.
