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Blue Water: the Instant Times Bestseller (Laurence Jago)

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Almost like a locked room mystery, the fact this the setting was primarily on board the Tankerville meant that as the reader you can only assume you know what is happening, but as the way with many well written mysteries, the twists keep coming to ensure nothing is as you think. Very hard book to get into, once you hit chapter 5 you kind of get used to who is who however this book I find very lacking. The machinations of the plot are cleverly put together, Jago being the 'innocent' and surrounded by a wonderfully drawn cast of characters.

The majority of the book is set on the Tankerville, following its journey from Falmouth to Philadelphia in 1795. 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. The use of nautical terminology never becomes too overwhelming but it all feels authentic and due to the setting, time period, elegant prose and frequent encounters with French warships, I was strongly reminded of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series. This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia.Blue Water is a compelling locked room murder-mystery filled with an exquisitely drawn cast of eccentric characters. History is being rewritten, too, and the Orwellian Ministry of Culture subjects people to mind-control techniques such as unlearning. 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. With the story being set on board a three masted packet ship, in a ‘locked room’ murder mystery style, this story has a lot to offer the historical reader who won’t be disappointed.

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. It is his great chance to redeem himself at Whitehall - except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave.Her historical note served to place the novel in context as well as providing fascinating details of the Jay Treaty, which was so vital to the plot and what is known of the Tankerville’s 1794 voyage. I had no idea who all the characters were, and even as the plot progressed it was confusing as mostly they lacked any real distinctions. Nattrass evokes a strong maritime atmosphere as well as imbuing her plot with the political wrangling of the period.

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