A Jewel in the Crown

Name: A Jewel in the Crown
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: David Lewis
ISBN: 9781696618953

Author: David Lewis

Series: Secret Churchill Files

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 04/08/2025

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Detective, International Crime & Mystery, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.

Caitrin Colline—a Welsh coalminer's daughter and an ardent socialist—will play the wife of Lord Marlton, Hector Neville-Percy. A less likely couple is at first difficult to imagine. Yet Caitrin's bold, streetwise confidence and sharp wits complement Hector's social ease and connections, essential to a second part of their mission: uncovering Nazi sympathizers within the highest ranks of Britain's aristocracy.

Battling enemies within and without, Caitrin wonders if anyone in their circle can be trusted—even her partner. And when unexpected events catapult her into a life-or-death chase across the continent, the morale of a nation and the fate of Europe itself in the balance.

About David Lewis

David Lewis, a French-born English neuropsychologist, is the founder and director at the independent research consultancy Mindlab International, which is located in the Sussex Innovation Centre in Brighton. Additionally, he is a chartered psychologist, an author, and a lecturer. He currently specializes in non-invasive techniques for measuring human responses under real-life conditions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Literary on April 30, 2024

A thrilling start to a new WWII mystery series, focusing on the theft of the British royal jewels en route to Canada for safekeeping from the Germans. Kept me gripped to the last page, with great one liners that made me guffaw. A winner!......more

Goodreads review by Sheri on June 02, 2024

I am so pleased that I was able to get an advanced copy of this book to review. Spy books set during WW2 in England are totally my jam, and I loved that our protagonist was a smart female. This was a quick and fun read. The settings were detailed and easy to picture. The characterization was good, w......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on April 02, 2024

Thanks goodreads for the giveaway. The trouble that I had with this book was the writing itself. The author used a lot of words throughout that I did not know how to pronounce. I get that the author was trying to be authentic but it was too much. The story was too descriptive at times. While I did l......more

Goodreads review by Marian on December 16, 2024

3.75 A fun novel set mostly in the British Isles in the early years of WWII. The principal characters are quite interesting and unpredictable and Winston Churchill is rendered in factual , if quirky , detail. Implausible events happen with some frequency as do amazingly close calls, but it was a fun r......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on August 31, 2024

Cute, fun read. Set in Britain at the onset of WWII, a young woman (commoner) is recruited to be a special agent and teamed with a young man (who is a Lord) to transport the Crown Jewels out of the country for safekeeping in case of invasion by Germany. The quips and comments and relationship is gre......more