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Was there a second diary, beyond the one Columbus kept, describing his voyage to the New World? Leading scholars at the Library of Congress think so, and Annabel Smith, with her pre-Columbian interests, has been commissioned by the library's magazine, Civilization, to write about it.

She is not the only person interested. Word comes through the rare-books black market that a wealthy bibliophile has been offered the second diary: He'd not only pay, he'd almost kill to possess it. Starting her search in the library itself, Annabel soon finds herself competing with an ambitious TV journalist. As both women come closer to finding the hidden documents, other questions creep up. Was the murder of the library's most prominent Hispanic scholar connected to the missing diary? Further research leads them deeper into barely explored corners of the library and closer to having to face their own mortality.

(Book 16 in the Capital Crimes series)

I gave another try at reading this author’s novels and I must say that this one is better than the 1st one I read, Murder in the CIA. Still, it has way too many characters sharing the main storyline, and also too many secondary storylines, even if it all merges together towards the end. But the writing was much better and more fluid, and I got drawn into the story more easily this time around. The story has a historical factor, which helped captivate my attention. Overall, I had a nice time reading it but it hasn’t change my mind about this author – she won’t be on my list of authors who I will definitely continue reading. It was nice having discovered her but it stops here.

Sent to the winner of round 24 of the Tea & Thriller/Crime sweepstake.

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this book will not be read by me.

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An average political tale in my opinion. It was very slow going at first. I think the author took longer than necessary in setting the background to the tale. It did get better though I found the ending rather unlikely but I won't say anything about it so as not to spoil it for other readers.

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