Good thriller. Some disturbing but interesting parts.

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I have read one David Hewson which I really liked (Lucifer's Shadow) and one which I was not so crazy about (Villa of Mystery) so I shall be interested in seeing where this falls in relation to the other two. The other two were set in Venice, but I don't mind a change of location to Rome.

Clancyrox2131- if you can, come join us on April 8 at Kudu Coffee (2pm) for our monthly BookCrossing Meetup!

I first read this author's book called Lucifer's Shadow, which I thought was marvelous. I then snapped up a little mystery of his (something with "Villa in it-- I think it was Villa of Mysteries, which was okay, but not great. So, when I was able to catch this book, I thought I'd see how it stacked up, great like the first or just okay, like the second. I'd put this somewhere between the two, a good, but not fabulous mystery. I got a little impatient with it all, but kept reading to make sure my guesses were correct. The author pulled one twist I didn't expect, but the others were pretty par for the core. My hunch is, after reading two of his police thriller mysteries, that he likes his history too much to just write a straight thriller and does a lot of research to tie the historical stuff into the plot.

All in all, I prefer him in Venice to Rome though (Rome being where the two police thrillers were set.) This did get me on-line to look up Caravaggio and his art, though. All is not lost!

I will release this next week in Clemson when I g o to see a friend who works there (at the Clemson Studios for "Your Day".) I want to show him how BookCrossing "works".

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Leaving this book at the Madren Conference Center, at the studio of the fabulous Your Day program.

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