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Fall of a Sparrow: Bresciano's First Case
It is 1780: Gibraltar is besieged. Giovanni Bresciano is a naive 18-year-old Gibraltarian who volunteers for the Army to defend his home, and finds himself investigating murder and worse.
329 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 16, 2016
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February 3, 2022
"Fall of a Sparrow" is the first in a 7 book series about the Gibraltar siege between the 17th & 18th century, it tells about Giovanni Bresciano a young half-Genoese and half-English amateur Sherlock Holmes, who takes it upon himself to investigate mysterious death's which the authorities believe are accident's, but he believes otherwise. It's a great read, it provides an insight about life during those terrible times that the garrison and the local population endured.
It's exciting to read about the streets and alleyways the character walked through which I recognise. There is a passage in which Giovanni is facing a defensive wall overlooking the bay with Spanish war ships blockading the entrance to Gibraltar, nowadays if you stand on that same spot, you can still see the wall but beyond that the sea has been reclaimed and houses have been built all around the area.
It's exciting to read about the streets and alleyways the character walked through which I recognise. There is a passage in which Giovanni is facing a defensive wall overlooking the bay with Spanish war ships blockading the entrance to Gibraltar, nowadays if you stand on that same spot, you can still see the wall but beyond that the sea has been reclaimed and houses have been built all around the area.
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