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Blue Water

By: Leonora Nattrass
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. It is his great chance to redeem himself—except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave. As the ship is searched, Laurence quickly discovers that his fellow passengers all have their own motives to find the treaty for themselves. And as a second death follows the first, Laurence must turn sleuth in order to find the killer before he has an 'accident' of his own.

©2022 Leonora Nattrass (P)2022 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction Crime
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I’ve mentioned before that I’m a sucker for a hapless hero and John Jags has very little hap but in this book he’s surpassed in this by a bear cub! At points I was more worried about the bear than any of the humans but they grabbed my attention back when needed. Great fun.

Great sequel

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settle down for some high seas trouble, a locked room mystery and cat and mouse caper, trying to work out who holds the mcguffin of the piece...

A rip roaring yarn

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An intriguing and well read story, which kept my attention throughout., with an engaging cast of characters and a series of twists and turns in a cunningly worked plot.

Highly recommended

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Not as good as the first adventure, but just as convoluted and complicated. Also certainly not swashbuckling as a book on the high seas would be. I often get disappointed by this. The characters were strong and interesting and I still love Lawrence Jago and his 'employer' Philpott. Am also glad the narrator has stayed on the audiobook, can't fault him, totally on point with the various accents. I look foward to the final installment and just wish Laurence had some good times!

Characters

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This second instalment of the Laurence Jago series is set afloat, but it is not all at sea. Confined to a small ship – the Tankerville - on the Atlantic Ocean, for the most part, tensions are heightened by murder and the threat of the same. The author populates her novel with characters that hold the attention and you can never easily tell if they are what they seem. William Philpott, Jago’s friend, remains the extra-colourful character we met in Black Spot. His mix of qualities is a rare delight. The audiobook is performed, and I use the word performed is correctly used, by David Thorpe and to my mind it is his best achievement amongst the large number of his performances that I have listened to. The characters are made to live. The pace of the novel matches each setting or event, but quickly the pace and action fairly rattles along. I look forward to the next instalment in the series.

Constant Intrigue and a Bear

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