Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller (Laurence Jago)

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Whilst I really enjoyed 'Black Drop' I feel that this novel shows Nattrass really hitting her stride.

No albatrosses shadowing them though a cormorant plays an interesting role when it settles in the ship’s riggings. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Although this is a sequel to Black Drop, which I haven’t read and features our protagonist, Laurence Jago, I had no issues reading it as a stand alone (but will definitely be picking up Black Drop to read in the future!I hadn’t read Black Drop, the book introducing Laurence Jago, but I didn’t feel I had missed out on any back story. I dont know if it was just not my cup of tea, the writing style, my attention span recently, but this bored me to tears to the point i found it really hard to concentrate on anything that was going on, i think i took in about 25% of this book and the rest i was just reading words.

Both are fabulously written historical fiction novels set in 1794/95, of which the author has captured the era, the social politics, the dialogue etc perfectly. And yes, you could read Blue Water as a standalone but why would you want to miss out on his first foray in the corridors of power and such deliciously dark yet authentic historical fiction? The new page-turning historical mystery from the author of BLACK DROP , a 2021 TIMES Book of the Year. Who has killed Jenkinson, a man who had taken it upon himself to guard the treaty – telling nobody, not even his confidante Jago, where he had secreted it. Among their number is Jago, of course, along with his dog Mr Gibbs; journalist William Philpott; Theodore Jay, son of American envoy John Jay; his slave and valet Peter Williams; and War Office official Frederick Jenkinson.The prose was in keeping with the style I would expect for the time, but this made it quite wordy and dull, although the variety of diary entries, letters and the Captain’s log did help to break it up. It's a real art to combine history and intrigue and yet she has delivered it - again - with such skill -- Liv Matthews, author of THE PRANK --This text refers to the paperback edition. A failed solicitor, he is drifting through life – the office, the pub, a barely furnished flat, lacklustre relationships. The narrator doesn't help - a voice less suitable is hard to imagine and he barely attempts to convince you he is a seafarer/aristocrat/civil war era civil servant. Blue Water is a locked room murder mystery with an eccentric cast of characters, and a clever setting - on board the Tankerville, a ship crossing the Atlantic from England in the 1790s.

Crazy events happen, death and sea monsters, and are simply brushed over with hardly a ripple of excitement.

Frederick Jenkinson, a War Office official and the only person onboard who knows Jago’s true purpose, ends up dead. A very likeable main protagonist plus an interesting setting aboard a ship, some characters from the first book in the series, some new. Find your next must-read with the Serpent’s Tail newsletter and discover gripping crime and mystery from Viper Books.

The new pageturning historical mystery from the author of BLACK DROP, a 2021 TIMES Book of the Year.Gary and his crabby neighbour Grace – who suspects that the detectives who’ve informed him of Brendan’s death may not be police officers at all – team up as an investigative odd couple, and the plot thickens. The story unfolds tantalisingly slowly, sneakily teasing the reader into thinking one thing, then the opposite, until our powers of deduction are as tossed about and confused as any seafaring passenger. SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **** AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER ** ** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR **'A TRULY GRIPPING READ' - GUARDIAN'FABULOUS, A DELIGHT' - S.