Customer Reviews
Not bad, hope the second is better - By: D. Wright, 02 Sep 2008 
I enjoy conspiracy tales about the templars & so thought this would fit in nicely with that genre. The basic premise of the storyline is good & i felt inpsired to read the book, but felt that the ending let it down as it was way too rushed & finished abruptly, especiallly after the build up promised so much. Hopefully the climax to her second novel will not sprint so quickly over the finish line
Total Waste of Time - By: Lancashire Lass, 12 Jul 2008 
I wish to goodness that I had not wasted hours of my life ploughing through this badly-written book. The adjective "tedious" does not even come close. Maybe it has lost something in the translation from Spanish (or maybe it's boring in Spanish, too). The basic premise is a very good one but it D-R-A-G-S interminably & the ending is highly unsatisfactory. Don't bother with it!
Tedious beyond belief - By: R. M. Richardson, 04 Jul 2008 This is a must read....that is if you want to be bored to tears. I can't believe how anyone can rate this book 4 or 5 stars!! At least Dan Brown's books have good & likeable characters, good plots & some excitement. This book moves at a snails pace, maybe slower.I persisted with this book to the end & reallly wished I hadn't bothered. Boring characters, slow plot, terrible, just terrible. If you want a decent historical/mystery choose Dan Brown, at least he knows how to put a book together. Forget this book........unless, you have no imagination & a high boredom threshold.
I'm sorry but I hate this book & wished I hadn't wasted my time.
a bit of class - By: Lady K, 19 Mar 2008 
Marco Valoni, chief investigator for Italy's Art Crimes departmeent is obsessed with the Cathedral in Turin or rather a series of 'accidents' that have occurred over the years. He has little to go on except years of experience & a gut instinct that the incidents are related & some how connected to the famous Shroud, that & the victims of the various incidents who appear to have had their tongues & fingerprints removed. 33 AD the king of Edessa is dying of leprosy & is persuaded by his queen & chief advisor to seek the help of the man from Nazareth. He writes to the Nazarene asking him to travel to Edessa but the man is on his way to Jerusalem for Passover & His destiny awaits but he promises the king will be healed.
Urfa in Turkey- an old man struggles to keep faith with his ancestors & the promise countless generations before him have upheld. Across the globe a group of very wealthy men meet for the next round in an old game of cat & mouse & a young woman is plagued with nightmares of fire, war & death. How these many threads are woven together into a page-turning thriller is what makes this a book well worth reading. There are no easy answers,alll of the characters feel very human, they make mistakes, they succumb to very human frailties- jealousy, anger, fear, violence. There is no neat tying up of loose ends at the end which means this is no trite morality tale nor is there a sense of being cheated which unfortunately dog so many 'biblical' thrillers these days.
The translation is good although there are quite a few typos- a minor irritation only, as the story sweeps along at quite a pace & the breadth of the narrative across time is enthrallling. Recommended to those who appreciate a bit of class in their religious thriller
A gripping story and a page turner of first order - not just another religious mystery - By: Klaus Meyer, 03 Dec 2007 
Religious mysteries are since Dan Brown's famous novel very much en vogue. I bought a few & some of them were pretty bad, so I was quite reluctant to go for another.
But with Julia Navarro's "The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud" I should have not worried.
She has an unique talent of writting a gripping stories & this starts with page 1. So no worry that one has to go first through 100 pages before the story takes off. I was hooked straight away. She follows an established pattern of tackling the story from five different perspectives. These perspectives merges step by step till the final climax. This keeps the suspense through the book. I never read religious mysteries because I wanted to learn soemthing about the religious aspects or as I am a believer in conspiracies stories, but as a crime story. And this you should do here too.
I believe Julia Navarro's first novel is a great achievement & I am looking forward to her second novel. Already now she can match the great established crime writers of our day. I enjoyed this book 100%.
