The Apothecary's House, by Adrian Mathews
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When an old woman storms into the Rijksmuseum demanding the return of her painting, archivist Ruth Braams cannot quell her curiosity. Ruth delves into the history of the piece of looted Nazi art and discovers an enigmatic picture with a disturbing wartime provenance. It also appears that the elderly Lydia is not the only claimant and, against strict bureau regulations, Ruth endeavours to help strengthen her case. Days later, Ruth begins to receive sinister anonymous threats, warning her to stay away from Lydia and the painting. As the threats escalate, Ruth realizes that there must be far more to the painting’s popularity, and she enters a series of increasingly lethal adventures as she investigates its secret symbolism. . . . Why did Hitler want this picture? Who was its obscure creator? And who are the figures in the painting? In trying to answer these questions, Ruth plummets into a world of grasping ambition and blighted love, where art and occult science join forces to take a staggering leap into the future. ‘The Apothecary’s House’ is a brilliant evocation of Amsterdam that combines fascinating historical detail with a cast of sharply realised characters—a fast-paced, finely crafted, riveting mystery. It was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 'Solid, trenchant writing' -- Crimetime ‘Elegant and witty novel’ -- Park & Holiday Homes magazine Adrian Mathews was born in 1957. He was brought up in London and read English at Cambridge. As well as ‘Vienna Blood’, which won the CWA Silver Dagger Award, he is the author of the literary thrillers ‘The Hat of Victor Noir’ and ‘The Apothecary's House’. Adrian Mathews has lived in Paris for over twenty years. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
The Apothecary's House, by Adrian Mathews- Amazon Sales Rank: #491896 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-17
- Released on: 2015-05-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Adrian Mathews lives in Paris with his wife and daughter. The Apothecary's House is his second novel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. A nice long book that will keep you reading By Isabella K. Badenoch I picked this book up at the airport, never having heard of it, but the author had won the Silver Dagger award for his previous book and I have in the past liked authors that have won this award, so I bought it on a whim. It's not a completely easy read, as some of the reviewers of his previous book (Vienna Blood) have commented. His writing is sometimes stilted and he does use unusual phrasing and words (good to have a dictionary nearby!). BUT, the book is very readable and the storyline captivating. The book is a hefty 706 pages in paperback, but I didn't find it too long nor did I feel like skipping sections.The story is set in Amsterdam, the main character working at an art museum, specializing in repatriating artwork to their rightful heirs. She comes across a painting that is being contested by two possible owners and she get inextricably involved with one of them. That is when strange things begin to happen.The only negative comment I have is that the ending seemed somewhat rushed. After having spent a good 400-odd pages delivering the story and setting the scene, the ending took just under 100 pages. But this does not detract from the story in a major way.Although Mathews' other book, Vienna Blood, seems to have gotten very scathing reviews, after having read this book, I am quite interested in reading it myself.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Nice scene setting, but stiffly written with cardboard dialogue. By frumiousb I had high hopes of the Apothecary House. Some friends of mine had enjoyed it and I wanted to give his writing another chance after disliking the award-winning Vienna Blood.All I can say is that I will not be picking up a third book. The Apothecary's House was a fairly serious disappointment.The story was interesting enough. I live in Amsterdam, so I really enjoyed the little descriptions of the city. The plot had the potential to be fascinating (although it did not end up that way) and on paper Ruth Braams is a decent character.Unfortunately, I really had the feeling that Mathews was phoning it in when it came to executing the concept. The prose is very stiff, and Ruth never emerges behind her character eccentricities to become a real person. By the end of the book, I had a very difficult time caring about the conclusion.This might be a nice read for the airplane trip back after a visit to Amsterdam. I'm not sure that I would buy it new, however.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Would have been a good read set in a city I loved but sloppy contextual research put me off... By Natasha Gerson I liked the characters, I liked the descriptions (where they weren't too inaccurate) I would have liked this book on the whole... but... what a shame the author didn't bother to let someone from Amsterdam proofread it, apparently. Maybe I'm a stick in the mud in some of the research omissions, and I won't sum them all up. My family consists of many generations of Mokummers, and also I have affinity and maybe more than average insight into the accuracy of parts of the subject. I smile wrily at a protagonist relating that they ate well in Westerbork while in Amsterdam they were eating tulip bulbs...in 1942. I don't want to be pedantic. But some mistakes are just unforgivable. Mixing Dutch up with German is bad enough, when unintentional, but to have a Dutch person involved in war history and moving in with an old Jewish lady declaring herself happy to have acquired some more 'Lebensraum' is just unthinkable. Lebensraum is a highly volatile term for something completely different then what the author meant, namely something like headspace. The chambermaid at his hotel would have sufficed to check this with, any Dutch person who would have read it beforehand would have remarked on it. Especially in a book that holds some pretences of accurate detail, such as mentioning actual cases (Goudstikker et al) and lenghty historical descriptions, those things are a disrespect to the subject, even if the majority of readers, those elsewhere in the world won't notice. It also makes that I am no less likely to read a novel by the same author set in a place I don't know as well as Amsterdam...
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