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The English Assassin by Daniel Silva – Horror behind the Murder

Daniel Silva is a well-known American author, who has brilliantly contributed many thriller and espionage novels.

The English Assassin” is a book that features an ensemble of very fascinating characters. The story is based on Switzerland’s shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.

As the story begins, the art restorer and occasional Israeli agent — Gabriel Allon is sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore the painting of a reclusive millionaire banker, Augustus Rolfe. But he arrives to find the banker murdered and fears that his former profession will implicate him in the homicide. He flees the crime scene but is arrested as he tries to exit the country. The rank of his questioners increases until he faces Gerhardt Peterson, the second-in-command of Switzerland’s internal security department. Peterson ignores Gabriel’s assertion of innocence, accuses him for the murder of the deceased banker.

After being released and warned never to return to Switzerland, his Israeli handler reveals the true reason Allon was chosen to make contact with the banker. Rolfe was a member of a highly secret organization that had collaborated with the Nazis years ago to steal millions in valuable artwork from their occupied countries. And for some reason, just prior to his murder, Rolfe had contacted the Israelis requesting a secret meeting. As Allon begins his investigation to uncover the reason for Rolfe’s phone call, the mystery takes him to a remote country house where Rolfe’s daughter, Anna leads an unhappy life.

Anna Rolfe is both empathetic and mysterious, not revealing herself much, but portray the image of a woman who has been scarred by life but refuses to succumb completely. Alienated from her father, she was also lavatory to secrets that will lead her and Allon on a chilling journey through Europe and ultimately back to Switzerland to unravel the truth behind her father’s final legacy. Did Allon track out the killer?

Author: Madeline Oscar
Author Details: Madeline, the content writer at present, started her career in a Telecomm domain as a network support engineer at the age of 22. She is excellent in delivering her targets with a professional touch.
Email: madeline.oscar@gmail.com
Website: Latest Horror Books

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Red Bones by Ann Cleeves – Mysteries Cloud at Whalsay

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Ann Cleeves lives near Whitley Bay. She is best known for her Inspector Ramsay novels that are set in the Northumberland. “Red Bones” is the third title of Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series. The main part of the book is set on the island of Whalsay, where Sandy and his family come from. Two young students are conducting an archaeological dig on a site at Whalsay, owned by Mima Wilson — Sandy’s widowed grandmother. The old lady is kind and gets on well with the young women, until the students discover a skull and some bones buried on the property. Hattie, one of the students, is remarkably excited by the find as she believes it will suspect her theory that there was a well-established old trading route, confirming the island a powerful commercial force in its time. In the meanwhile, a shooting accident takes the life of an elderly woman which results in calling Jimmy Perez by her grandson, Sandy Wilson. He finds two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. With Fran in London, and surrounded by people he doesn’t know and a community he has no links with, Jimmy finds himself out of his depth. He gets little help from recalcitrant islanders who help him to move behind the mysteries. When an investigation rolls on, another death occurs that makes Jimmy to struggle a lot in this case. Red Bones is an excellent, absorbing and page-turner, which is quite as assured and entertaining as its predecessors. Did Jimmy unbind the interweaving mysteries?

Ann Cleeves lives near Whitley Bay. She is best known for her Inspector Ramsay novels that are set in the Northumberland.

Red Bones by Ann Cleeves” is the third title of Ann Cleeves’ Shetland series. The main part of the book is set on the island of Whalsay, where Sandy and his family come from. Two young students are conducting an archaeological dig on a site at Whalsay, owned by Mima Wilson — Sandy’s widowed grandmother. The old lady is kind and gets on well with the young women, until the students discover a skull and some bones buried on the property.

Hattie, one of the students, is remarkably excited by the find as she believes it will suspect her theory that there was a well-established old trading route, confirming the island a powerful commercial force in its time. In the meanwhile, a shooting accident takes the life of an elderly woman which results in calling Jimmy Perez by her grandson, Sandy Wilson. He finds two feuding families whose envy, greed and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. With Fran in London, and surrounded by people he doesn’t know and a community he has no links with, Jimmy finds himself out of his depth. He gets little help from recalcitrant islanders who help him to move behind the mysteries.

When an investigation rolls on, another death occurs that makes Jimmy to struggle a lot in this case. Red Bones is an excellent, absorbing and page-turner, which is quite as assured and entertaining as its predecessors. Did Jimmy unbind the interweaving mysteries?

Author: Madeline Oscar
Author Details: Madeline, the content writer at present, started her career in a Telecomm domain as a network support engineer at the age of 22. She is excellent in delivering her targets with a professional touch.
Email: madeline.oscar@gmail.com
Website: Latest Horror Books

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