Book tour: The Irish Inheritance - M.J. Lee (#1 Jayne Sinclair)

June 8, 1921. Ireland. 

A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin.

November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. 

Former police detective, Jayne Sinclair, now working as a genealogical investigator, receives a phone call from an adopted American billionaire asking her to discover the identity of his real father.

How are the two events linked?

Jayne Sinclair has only three clues to help her: a photocopied birth certificate, a stolen book and an old photograph. And it soon becomes apparent somebody else is on the trail of the mystery. A killer who will stop at nothing to prevent Jayne discovering the secret hidden in the past 

The Irish Inheritance takes us through the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Irish War of Independence, combining a search for the truth of the past with all the tension of a modern-day thriller.

It is the first in a series of novels featuring Jayne Sinclair, genealogical detective.

My opinion.

I’ve been a history geek for as long as I can remember and I’ve always enjoyed learning more about it through (historical) fiction. And The Irish Inheritance did exactly that. The Irish Revolution or the Easter Rising weren’t things I was particularly familiar with. M J Lee however took me on a journey with this book, transporting me straight into the heath of things, giving his reader a wonderful glimpse of the past thanks to detailed and rich writing throughout.

The story itself was full of unexpected twists and turns and kept me on the edge of my seat. The detective side mixed with history made for a new, unique and exciting cocktail. I truly enjoyed reading The Irish Inheritance and I’ll be on the lookout for more by M J Lee.

 

Author bio: Martin has spent most of his adult life writing in one form or another. As a University researcher in history, he wrote pages of notes on reams of obscure topics. As a social worker with Vietnamese refugees, he wrote memoranda. And, as the creative director of an advertising agency, he has written print and press ads, tv commercials, short films and innumerable backs of cornflake packets and hotel websites.

He has spent 25 years of his life working outside the North of England. In London, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Shanghai, winning awards from Cannes, One Show, D&AD, New York and London Festivals, and the United Nations.

Whilst working in Shanghai, he loved walking through the old quarter of that amazing city, developing the idea behind a series of crime novels featuring Inspector Pyotr Danilov, set in 1920s and 30s.When he's not writing, he splits his time between the UK and Asia, taking pleasure in playing with his daughter, practicing downhill ironing, single-handedly solving the problem of the French wine lake and wishing he were George Clooney.

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