Touchstone
 

Touchstone

by Laurie R. King

Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions begins with a visit to a recluse upon whom the fate of an entire nation may rest—a man code-named . . .

It’s eight years after... (read more)

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Amy P
  • Rated 5 stars

STOLEN review from Unfinished Woman on shelfari. I couldn't have said it better, including the spelling! A superb story. Post WWI rivals of labour and the coal mine owners in London and Oxford, and briefly in Cornwall, sets the stage for American Bureau of Investigation (early J. Edgar Hoover), agent Harris Stuyvesant's hunt for a bomber he believes to be a British labour activist. Harris insinuates himself into the lives of a titled family, Bennett Grey, a "PTSD" and somewhat clairvoyant...

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Susan T
  • Rated 2 stars

I love her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series but I'm 160 pages into this one and I'm 99% ready to put it down and move on...

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