Book
Review
Basic Details:
Book Title: The Desolate
Garden
Subtitle:
Author:
Daniel Kemp
Genre: Spy
Part of a series? No
Order in series: N/A
Best read after earlier
books in series? N/A
Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36416151-the-desolate-garden
Overall
score:
I
scored this book 4/5
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Short
Summary of the book:
This book tells the complicated and entangled
story of one family. Previously unknown family ties become known to Harry
Paterson as he tries to find out who murdered his father and brother. Will he
be able to find out who did it before more of his family members meet the same
fate?
What
I liked about the book:
I
liked the suspense and the tension within the book.
What
I didn’t like about the book:
Unfortunately, there were several points
where the sentences were unclear due to missing words or wrong tenses. This did
not take away of the quality of the book but only made it slightly more
difficult to read.
My
favourite bits in the book:
Where
the woven mysteries of this family became untangled.
My
least favourite bits in the book:
I
enjoyed the entire book.
Any
further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?
I believe this is a stand-alone book. This author
has, however, written several other books.
What
books could this be compared to and why?
This book is not dissimilar in the other book
of his hand I have read, Why A Complicated Love, even if the story is
completely different.
Recommendation:
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Children
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No
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Young
Adult
|
Maybe
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Adult
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Yes
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If
you like Spy novels this book may be the
book for you.
I
look forward to reading more books by this author.
Book
Description by Author:
Only months before the murder of Lord Elliot Paterson, and
his youngest son Edward, an address in Leningrad is discovered hidden in the
ledgers of the family's Bank in Westminster, dating back to the 1930's. There
is a spy in the family, but on whose side? His eldest son Harry is recruited
into the British Secret Service to uncover the traitor. The Desolate Garden is
a twisting tale of deceit and intrigue with Harry, and an attractive girl from
the Home Office, desperately trying to unravel the mystery, before anyone else
meets the same fate.
About
the Author:
Daniel Kemp’s introduction to the world of espionage and
mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office
in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his
father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself!
On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working
life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed
London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless,
after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out
of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The
Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid
option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for five years until
distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company.
All seven of his novels are now published by Creativia with
the seventh—The Widow’s Son, completing a three book series alongside: What
Happened In Vienna, Jack? and Once I Was A Soldier. Under the Creativia
publishing banner, The Desolate Garden went on to become a bestselling novel in
World and Russian Literature in 2017. The following year, in May 2018, his book
What Happened In Vienna, Jack? was a number one bestseller on four separate
Amazon sites: America, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Although it's true to say that he mainly concentrates on
what he knows most about; murders laced by the mystery involving spies, his
diverse experience of life shows in the short stories he writes, namely: Why? A
Complicated Love, and the intriguing story titled The Story That Had No
Beginning.
He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious
Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed
employee of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book
signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising
that first novel of his.
He continues to write novels, poetry and the occasional
quote; this one is taken from the beginning of Once I Was A Soldier
There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise
that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality.
Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Kemp/...
