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In My Hands Today…

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The Templar Salvation – Raymond Khoury

CONSTANTINOPLE, 1203: As the ravaging armies of the Fourth Crusade lay seige to the city, a secretive band of Templars infiltrates the imperial library. Their target: a cache of documents that must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Doge of Venice. They escape with three heavy chests filled with explosive secrets that these men will not live long to learn…

VATICAN CITY, PRESENT DAY: FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the pope’s massive Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition, No one but the pope’s trusted secondi is allowed in, but Reilly has earned the Vatican’s trust – a trust he has no choice but to violate. A vicious, uncompromising terrorist bent on revenge has kidnapped Tess Chaykin, and the key to her freedom lies in this underground crypt, in the form of a document known as the Fondo Templari – the secret history of the infamous Templars…

In My Hands Today…

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A Noble Killing – Barbara Nadel (An inspector Ikmen mystery)

Istanbul: the sight that greets Inspector Cetin Ikmen is horrific. The girl was burnt alive in her own bedroom. Was it suicide or murder? Alongside his troubled partner Inspector Mehmet Suleyman, he discovers that the girl had a secret boyfriend who has now disappeared. Then another body is found, a music teacher with his throat cut. Could they be connected? Soon the policemen they are on a trail of something much more sinister and terrifyingly well organised than they could ever have imagined. And the danger gets closer to home as Inspector Suleyman, in obsessive love with an unsuitable woman, is dragged into a lethal underworld that could ruin his career and even take his life…

In My Hands Today…..

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Ok, here is a confession – I am a bookworm and I can read books like it’s going out of fashion! I am almost never without a book in my hand, hence the title of this series. I usually borrow books from the library every weekend and since each card lets you take 6, I borrow my full quota and at times, if S or the kids are not using their quota, eat into those too. During school holidays in order to encourage children to read, the libraries have the Drop Everything And Read (DEAR) thing going, which basically allows you to double up your books quota. When that happens, I am in book heaven since this means I can borrow 12 books on my card alone!!

Since I used to put down the list of books I read in the other tab and it didn’t work out, this time what I thought of doing was put the blurb of the book plus a picture of the book cover (I got this idea from a blog I browsed today). This also lets me know what I actually read.  But be warned, since I go through an average of 5-6 books a week, so this type of post will happen almost daily! Some days it can be two books in a post also. So here is what is in my hands today…

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? – Agatha Christie

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something more sinister? Fun-loving adventurers Bobby Jones and Frances Derwent’s suspicions are certainly aroused – especially since the man’s dying words were so peculier: Why didn’t they ask Evans? Bobby and Frances would love to know. Unfortunately, asking the wrong people has sent the amateur sleuths running for their lives – on a wild and deadly pursuit to discover who Evans was and what it was he wasn’t asked, and why the mysterious enquiry has put their own lives in mortal danger….