The Fiorella Files-Gaynor And Lock

The Fiorella Files is the CRUSADE Radio Network’s book review show. Each week author Fiorella Nash reveals which books you should read and which ones to avoid. This week, Fiorella has two books for you. 

The Bird In The Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor

China, 1941. With Japan’s declaration of war on the Allies, Elspeth Kent’s future changes forever. When soldiers take control of the missionary school where she teaches, comfortable security is replaced by rationing, uncertainty and fear.

Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School. Now the enemy, separated indefinitely from anxious parents, the children must turn to their teachers – to Miss Keny and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – for help. But worse is to come when the pupils and teachers are sent to a distant internment camp. Unimaginable hardship, impossible choices and danger lie ahead.

Scotland Yard’s First Cases by Joan Lock

This book takes you the arduous task of solving murders in the mid-1800s.  Lock leaves no stone unturned as she takes you the process and the methods used by Scotland Yard’s first detectives.  These detectives may not have the skill of Sherlock Holmes but their skills rivaled the vaunted detective. 

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