International Writers Inspiring Change presents: The London Art Murders

When a Fabergé egg surfaces in a London market, it sets off a chain reaction that pulls Deputy Headteacher Matt Yates into a world of deception and high-stakes pursuit, as Yates finds himself hunted by forces beyond anything he could have imagined.

Enter DCI Jacob Vance and DCI Brittany Shepherd: two seasoned investigators with a history of uncovering London’s darkest secrets. As the egg’s value becomes clear, so does the trail of blood that stretches from back-alley galleries to elite art houses, and across international borders to Monaco, Paris, and beyond.

As secrets unravel, Vance and Shepherd uncover a web of art trafficking and organized crime. But the deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that this is no ordinary case. Global powers are at play, with deadly consequences.

A fast-paced detective thriller, THE LONDON ART MURDERS is the tenth book in the Vance And Shepherd Mysteries series by John Broughton.

Our review of The London Art Murders

The London Art Murders: (Vance And Shepherd Mysteries Book 10) by John Broughton, is textbook Sherlock Holmes style detective work from start to finish. This story twists and turns through dark alleys, jumping borders and casting the reader into the dark pits of the criminal world - all for just one prize - a Faberge Egg worth millions. Filled with suspense, murder and mystery, the book also tells the story of human graft and greed, the extent to which people will go to gain wealth, at the expense of any moral compass - if in fact they have any principles left. This is a good read, not gory, not bloody, just good police procedural with a surprising twist at the end that you will never figure out ahead of time. Good reading!

Review by International Writers Inspiring Change

About John Broughton

I was born in Cleethorpes Lincolnshire in 1948: one of the post-war baby boom. After attending grammar school and studying to the sound of Bob Dylan I went to Nottingham University and studied Medieval and Modern History (Archaeology subsidiary).

 My two kids are grown up now, but I wrote books for them when they were little. Hamish Hamilton and then Thomas Nelson published 6 of these in England in the 1980s. I’m a granddad now and happily his parents named my grandson Dylan. I decided to take up writing again late in my career. You know when you are teaching and working as a translator you don’t really have time for writing.

I retired in January 2014 and began researching the period that has always fascinated me: Anglo-Saxon England. My research homed in on a Pope from Calabria, Italy, where I live, Pope Zachary and from there I chanced upon a letter from a certain Denehard and the idea for my first historical novel 'The Purple Thread' was born. Endeavour Media published it in the summer of 2017 along with my second, set 50 years or so earlier in Southern England with the title Wyrd of the Wolf. Since Endeavour ceased its activities, I've had another 40 novels published by Next Chapter Publishing.

A while back, after writing a sequel to Wyrd of the Wolf, entitled In the Name of the Mother, I took a decision to develop my writing in two directions. There would still be the content of my beloved Anglo-Saxon era but in parallel to my 'pure' historical novels like Perfecta Saxonia and Ulf’s Tale there would also be a line involving the element of involving the past with the present as in my ‘time travel novel’ Angenga and a series of seven books, beginning with a tale of the paranormal entitled Elfrid's Hole (Jake Conley Book 1). Later still, I decided to write a Murder Mystery and with its success, another series was born. There are now 10 Vance & Shepherd Metropolitan Murders novels.

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