Diana's Altar

Name: Diana's Altar
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Barbara Cleverly
ISBN: 9781501919817

Author: Barbara Cleverly

Series: Detective Joe Sandilands #9

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 12 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/03/2016

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, Historical Fiction, International Crime & Mystery

Synopsis

Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the stranger's chest and his last-minute confession, the death is ruled a suicide. The victim, it is revealed, is known to Scotland Yard, and Assistant Commissioner Joe Sandilands is sent up from London to investigate. Thrown into a deadly ring of cloak-and-dagger politics and high-society hedonism, Sandilands must uncover the truth before the Hellfire Club, an elite society composed of intelligentsia and aristocrats, topples the institutions and harms the people he has sworn to protect-especially one he has come to truly love.

About Barbara Cleverly

Barbara Cleverly is a former teacher and a graduate of Durham University who now lives in Cambridge. Her debut, The Last Kashmiri Rose, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen

This story was just okay for me, I have to admit that I miss India as a setting for this series.......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

In the past, I enjoyed the Joseph Sandilands series. The last novel of this series presents a sad disappointment. The novel features the daring and intrigue of the past novels, but the language does not evenly flow. The banter into the workings of Scotland Yard and M15 proved tedious and boring and......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

I love this series but found this entry very tedious to read. I had a hard time sticking with it to be honest.......more

Goodreads review by Judith

Assuredly one of the best of the Sandilands series. The Cambridge setting is atmospheric, the historical period fraught with danger, and Sandilands is surrounded by suspects scientifically capable of detonating devastating blast in town. Add to that, a thoroughly depraved, manipulative, and unpredic......more