Book Review: Nothing Ventured by Jeffrey Archer
Mystery crime books are one of my most treasured genres. They have a richness to them that leave me hooked and in a complete trance as I read them. No master of crime books has impressed me with his way of storytelling than Jeffrey Archer. After his brilliant seven book series, The Clifton Chronicles, he brings to us a spin-off series about Detective William Warwick.
The son of a criminal collaborator lawyer, William Warwick goes against his family’s tradition of going to law school and instead ventures to his goal of becoming a detective. Proving himself to be of value and great intelligence, Warwick becomes a reliable detective in Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques division after uncovering the reality of a crime that was thought solved–that is the crime of the theft of a Rembrandt painting from The Fitzmolean Museum in London.
On his path to solving that mystery, William Warwick meets a woman named Beth, who becomes his love interest, but also turns out to be harboring a great deep secret.
I was most impressed by the originality of this novel. Finally, a mystery novel about a detective that does not try to rip off or copy Sherlock Holmes in any way. This one rather creates a new story of a hero detective that is realistic, plausible, and in a way, educational. But then again, that has always been the style that one can be promised from such a writer as Jeffrey Archer.
If you find yourself near a bookstore, then do yourself a favor, head on over to the mystery and crime section and pick up this book before the sequel even comes out! And if you really want to enjoy yourself, pick up all 7 books of the Clifton Chronicles.
