The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin

 

In 1939, Ken Kourian went to a party at the house of Oliver Tooke, a wealthy young man who wanted to pursue life as a writer. They were immediately acquainted.

Oliver's life is not a bed of roses apparently. He died by suicide. Ken tried to think of a reason why Oliver might have done it. 

He had been thinking a lot about Oliver's new book, The Turnglass. He thinks Oliver left it as a sign in case something happened to him. He wanted Ken to let people know the truth if he couldn't himself. There are a lot of subtle messages in his book. 

The events in the book were based on what had happened to Oliver's grandfather almost sixty years earlier. He thinks those events were connected to what had happened to the family. His book took some unravelling about Turglass House which always had something corrupt and malign. 

His death was most likely linked to his mother's being in an asylum and his brother being abducted when they were small. It was why Oliver had spoken of the guilt a lot before he died. 

Oh my. The most underrated book I've read this year. This book is unique not only because of tete-beche. The plot and the author's writing are amazing. A story within a story is a captivating tale filled with mystery and mind-blowing endings. 5 ⭐️ !!

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Traitors Gate by Jeffrey Archer

 

Superintendent William Warwick is a part of the Crown Jewel's escort. Sword of State and Imperial State Crown would once again be worn by Her Majesty at the House of Lords on Queen's Speech for the State Opening of Parliament. 

There was an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671 but unfortunately, it didn't succeed. Miles Faulkner who has 4 years of fraud and returns to his shady business trying to seek revenge implies that Warwick is the next target.

Jeffrey Archer's writing of a British police procedural crime thriller is straightforward. The plot is linear and clear. My first impression of Warwick is that he is too perfect and almost boring for lack of flaws. It is very easy to become invested in the story from the first chapter of this latest William Warwick series.

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Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

A body has been found on the Land Trust roof. Joseph Barrow and Phineas Drummond, a detective from Cahokia PD Murder Squad investigating the murder. But the body was put there to tell a story, deliberately someone's idea to create a chaos and crazy scheme.

The city of Cahokia is home to three major ethnic groups: native Americans (takouma), African Americans (taklousa) and European Americans (takata). The story of a city that is full of accidents, improbabilities, grand ambitions, tragedies, sudden changes and the slow march of time to wipe away native power and native property rights.

This historical crime novel is set circa 1922. It is a whimsical and imaginative tale that explores topics of organisations such as subversive networks, anarchists, race radicals, KKK, Class solidarity, the Church, ancient Aztecs and the Inca.

The book is definitely NOT about whodunnit but focuses particular attention on symbols and the inside story of distinctive of the ethnic. The author also expertly pulls all the threads together to provide a satisfying detective noir theme to tell history through a wider and more inclusive lens. My personal rating is 5 ⭐️

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