With it being the month of Halloween what better than a nice mystery featuring spiritualists, ghosts and a strange mirror that breaches the curtain of death.
This beautiful black and gold book on opening includes a map of Blackwater Island and a great opening chapter introducing Captain Donovan. We then go on to discover he is there for a meeting with military intelligence as top secret information is finding its way into enemy hands.
At the meeting he meets Kate Cartwright, her brother is MIA and her engagement has been called off. I loved Kate, her intelligence shone from the page.
Kate is commanded to accept an invitation which she had previously declined to attend a spiritualist event contacting the dead who have been lost at war with her ex fiancé (awkward) and Donovan posing as his valet (wearing an eye patch to explain why he is not fighting in the war).
The setting of an island cut off from any help, storms, secret passages and ghostly goings on it’s easy to see why this has been compared with Agatha Christie.
This is a slow burner and more a character driven book as the action doesn’t really start until three quarters of the way through. Don’t let that put you off though as the writing is enough to hold your attention.
This is not only a tale of espionage but a great little mystery with supernatural elements .
This beautiful black and gold book on opening includes a map of Blackwater Island and a great opening chapter introducing Captain Donovan. We then go on to discover he is there for a meeting with military intelligence as top secret information is finding its way into enemy hands.
At the meeting he meets Kate Cartwright, her brother is MIA and her engagement has been called off. I loved Kate, her intelligence shone from the page.
Kate is commanded to accept an invitation which she had previously declined to attend a spiritualist event contacting the dead who have been lost at war with her ex fiancé (awkward) and Donovan posing as his valet (wearing an eye patch to explain why he is not fighting in the war).
The setting of an island cut off from any help, storms, secret passages and ghostly goings on it’s easy to see why this has been compared with Agatha Christie.
This is a slow burner and more a character driven book as the action doesn’t really start until three quarters of the way through. Don’t let that put you off though as the writing is enough to hold your attention.
This is not only a tale of espionage but a great little mystery with supernatural elements .