the Hunt for Legendary Holy Grail: A historical crime novel

London, October 1893.A professor lies dead in his library. The poison in his port is still fresh - and the killing has only just begun.When Inspector Julian Winterbourne of Scotland Yard takes on the case of the poisoned historian Professor Aldric Somersby, he has no inkling that this murder will lead him into the depths of a seven-hundred-year-old secret - a secret for which men are willing to kill. And to die.The trail leads Winterbourne from the archives of the British Museum to the wicked alleys of Whitechapel, from the salons of the London aristocracy to forgotten crypts beneath medieval churches. At his side: Dr. Vivienne Carlisle, a brilliant historian who knows more about the Templars than any living soul - and who has her own reasons for seeking the truth.Three murders. One secret order. And a chalice that could change the world.Behind the killings stands the Ordo Flammae Argenteae - the Order of the Silver Flame, founded by a Knight Templar in 1149 to protect Christendom's holiest relic: a simple silver cup from which a carpenter's son drank for the last time with his brothers. But Winterbourne is not the only one searching for the chalice. Sir Godfrey Lennox, a ruthless industrialist with a fortune made of steel and a soul made of ice, wants the Grail at any cost - and his assassin, Crane, leaves no witnesses behind.In a race against time, Winterbourne must decipher a medieval manuscript, hunt an invisible killer, and make a decision that weighs heavier than any other in his life: What does a man do when he finally finds the Holy Grail?"The Hunt for the Legendary Holy Grail" is an atmospheric historical mystery that brings Victorian London to life in all its misty, gaslit splendor.For readers of Umberto Eco, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte - and for everyone who knows that some secrets are greater than the truth.From the Crusades to the backstreets of London.

Pagina's: 416, Paperback, Independently published