Through a Glass, DarklyA luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father in law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter shares her fear with Brunetti that he will actually harm her

Ben Smith's writing is incredibly precise

The key to their success is Herakles

but western intelligence has other plans for him

despite a stunning British victory

Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in a post-Brexit Britain

in between

so too are politicians from the highest levels of the Whig government

If Gair can escape

help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love in the third sparkling page-turner from Boris Akunin

BRIDGE is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters

But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending

Reminiscent of a Golden Age mystery