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The Sacred Scroll
Oct 31, 2024 11:23 AM

Author:Anton Gill

The Sacred Scroll

Constantinople 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders - the streets awash with blood.

Modern day Istanbul: an elite group of archaeologists uncover the grave of Enrico Dandolo, once Doge of Venice, and leader of the bloodthirsty Fourth Crusade. They seek a legendary set of documents that reveal the truth behind Dandolo's rumoured secret links to the Templar knights.

Days later the team vanishes without a trace. All that remains in the ransacked grave is a strange key inscribed with an ancient code.

Special Interpol Operatives Jack and Laura are called in. They soon find themselves battling against an ancient enemy in a life or death race against time.

The dark secret of the Templar knights is about to be revealed.

Reviews

'The John Grisham of medical fiction'

—— Sunday Independent (Dublin)

There is an icy dispassionate grip to Jungstedt's writing that recalls Henning Mankell

—— Metro

She is in total control of plot and pace, conveys chilling atmosphere and her characters are well above average for believability

—— The Times

Jungstedt delivers excellent clammy atmosphere and a constant premonition of weird deaths to come. She's becoming one of Scandinavia's best crime writers, no mean compliment in a crowded field

—— The Times

Sweet-natured and hilarious

—— Financial Tiimes Summer Reads

Popular fiction at its best

—— The Washington Post

Only one's dreams after a champagne-fuelled night at the Follies Bergere have quite the same nightmarish-but-entertaining quality as Vargas's delightful crime novels

—— Jake Kerridge , Daily Telegraph

Gripping

—— Guardian

[Vargas is] one of the most exciting, addictive and inventive purveyor of classy crime fiction currently pounding the publishing beat... It it a highly entertaining policier but more importantly, as with Conan Doyle, the wacky world Vargas shapes is oddly reassuring: a great remedy to a grey day

—— Christian House , Indepedent on Sunday

A thrilling read

—— Sunday Times

A beguiling story

—— Independent on Sunday

A sinister, beguiling tale that brilliantly evokes a childhood world

—— Woman and Home

Brilliant and nightmarish, this modern fairytale is beautifully written

—— Eve Magazine

Phantom will maintain Jo Nesbo’s unstoppable momentum.

—— The Independent

The king of Nordic crime – and his haunted protagonist Harry Hole – returns with this tightly plotted thriller which pitches Hole deep into the murky underworld of Oslo’s heroin market.

—— Metro

Jo Nesbo is at the top of his game... The must-read thriller of 2012.

—— Bella

Phantom leaves us reeling, with a storyline and ending that hurts us almost as much as it hurts the protagonists... The twists and turns show Nesbo at his complicated, yet utterly accessible best, and Hole at his undeniably brilliant but self-destructive worst.

—— The List

Jo Nesbo is a master of his craft. His latest novel, Phantom, is world-class crime writing. Phantom is a crime novel that pleases on every level.

—— Dagbladet (Norway)

Harry Hole is back only to find that the case he wants to investigate is already closed

—— Observer

Jo Nesbo has done it again with Phantom, his seventh gripping novel featuring Inspector Harry Hole... Tense and compulsive Phantom will have you jumping out of your seat

—— Hannah Britt , Daily Express

King of Scandinavian crime... A writer at the top of his game

—— Deirdre O’Brien , Sunday Mirror

Riveting reading from page one

—— My Weekly
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