Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller (Laurence Jago)

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Gary and his crabby neighbour Grace – who suspects that the detectives who’ve informed him of Brendan’s death may not be police officers at all – team up as an investigative odd couple, and the plot thickens. He’s undercover, on a secret mission to help get the Jay treaty safely across to America, something made more difficult when the agent entrusted with it, dies.

A possible clue is hinted at very strongly in the beginning, but it’s not understood by the main character until very late in the book. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate 'accidental' end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. I dont know if it was just not my cup of tea, the writing style, my attention span recently, but this bored me to tears to the point i found it really hard to concentrate on anything that was going on, i think i took in about 25% of this book and the rest i was just reading words. MACLEAN'A FINE ADVENTURE REMINISCENT OF PATRICK O'BRIAN' - SUNDAY TIMESThis is the secret report of Laurence Jago. The second book in the Laurence Jago series sees the disgraced Foreign Office clerk on a mission to help deliver a treaty to Congress to prevent America from joining forces with France to wage war against Britain.The ship’s destination is Philadelphia, where one of Jago’s fellow passengers, Theodore Jay, will deliver a treaty to President Washington. There is quite an eclectic group of people on board, and that is before a girl eith a dancing bear boards at one of the stops. Beautifully written, immaculately plotted and filled with more red herrings than the Atlantic, it takes readers on a thrilling voyage of murder and mystery. Intrigue, tension, memorable characters and shipboard life depicted in all its reeking authenticity add up to a truly gripping read.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.The book does not grip you at any point, the book does not take you to imagine the scene if that makes sense. The style of writing took a little while to get used to but I think helped to add to the story as it helped draw the reader into the period more.

This is my first Leonora Nattrass book, but I do have Black Drop on my shelf which I will definitely be picking up soon, given how much I enjoyed Blue Water. It’s available from 20th October as an audiobook, ebook and in hardback with the paperback due out next year. Nattrass has a real talent for transporting her readers to the 1790’s with pitch perfect prose infused with historical detail (never overdone), humour and intrigue. If you haven’t read Black Drop and don’t want spoilers, let alone any hints as to what he gets up to in Blue Water, you probably need to stop reading at the end of this paragraph. Nattrass's nautical detail is most effective, never overplayed and just as satisfying as any of the C.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Bob Mortimer is the latest celebrity to follow a bestselling memoir with fiction, in this case a crime novel set in drab south-east London.