Monday 25 October 2021

 



The Genesis Enquiry- Olly Jarvis- Legal thriller/mystery & crime  

“What a treat it is to read Olly Jarvis’s THE GENESIS INQUIRY: a compulsively

readable crime and legal thriller that pulls off the trick of being both satisfyingly

traditional and supremely up to the minute. In the attractive, cussed and

charismatic person of lawyer Ella Blake Jarvis has created a hero that we

can hope to see again. A real winner.”- Stephen Fry


Wow! A book to quickly become absorbed in and take you along for the ride. Ella

Blake ran away from her life when she lost a case three years ago. She has been

living in a campervan up and around Lindisfarne away from it all. Her daughter

Lizzie is at Cambridge and has had little contact with her. Ella is a QC and good

at what she does, or at least did. An old friend contacts her about finding a

missing person, not just anyone, a polymath from Cambridge and Ella sees

this as not only a chance to rejoin the human race but also to reach out to

her estranged daughter. The case quickly becomes dangerous and Ella has

to use all her resources to keep both her and Lizzie safe. I couldn’t help

but think of The Da Vinci Code- however this is a more up to date version

and much better in my humble opinion. I would love to see this as a drama or film.

I quickly became engrossed in this and there is a skill and technicality of

writing around an early legal issue which showcased Olly’s background as

a barrister. I rapidly took to Ella- a troubled woman but very much with

two feet on the ground and a tenacity to seek the truth. 

A book to very much keep the grey matter active ( just how I like it!) and

one for anyone enjoying a mystery, law and history combined with a

smattering of other subjects in the mix from astronomy to Socrates,

Plato and more. Stunning, thrilling and a whole lot more.


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