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Sacrifice by Kathleen Heady

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I won this one in a GR giveaway which did not influence my review in any way. I got this thinking it was a mystery but it was more suspense as the main characters don't really investigate the crime. Nara (Afro-Caribbean/British) and her husband, Alex, have been sent to Spain by the museum they work for to recover the journals of a British artist/freedom fighter who lost her life in the Spanish Civil War. Her journals have surfaced in a church in a remote village.

Before the priest can turn them over, he’s murdered. Nara and Alex are of course concerned about it and want to find the journals which makes sense. They don’t feel the need to find the murderer, happy to leave that to the police which is actually unusual for an amateur sleuth story.

Mixed into this is a separate series of point of view characters, a lady smuggler who wants out. Apparently the town has been into smuggling since the war.

Naturally, the story lines dovetail. The characters are interesting. Nara trying to reconnect with her father and half sister was good too. It is character driven and that’s always a fun thing. I was a little disappointed in the resolution of the priest’s murder story line. That said I’d read more of this series.



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