La tabla de Flandes / The Flanders Panel (Paperback)

from xicanti

Julia, a restoration specialist, uncovers a centuries-old mystery in a painting she's been hired to prepare for auction. This is marketed as "a novel of suspense." Suspense. Meaning it should've been, you know, suspenseful. It wasn't. In fact, it was supremely unsuspenseful. In Perez-Reverte's de...

from wowcaipora

While the concept of the book was intriguing, this novel was a bit tedious to read. Less than an amateur at chess, I found it necessary to study the provided chessboard diagrams for several minutes each time they were presented. In addition to the time spent examining the graphics in the book, se...

from juniperSun

I enjoyed the intertwining of the plot with the painting "The Game of Chess" by Pieter Van Huys. As Julia learns about the intrigues of the 1400's, and identifies with Beatrice, danger begins to encroach on her own life. Julia's experiences bring to life the psychology of chess, the layers of mea...

from Larxol

I didn't enjoy this book as much as several of Perez-Reverte's others. The intertwining of the chess game with the plot is a clever conceit, but in the end I found the clunky exposition needed to bring along the non-chess-playing readers got in the way of the story-telling.

from majkia

A thriller that follows a restorer, who is working on a painting called 'Game of Chess'. When her old lover is killed, she's driven on to discover what the painting is about, and asks her friends to help her understand the message she finds hidden in the painting, "who killed the knight". The mor...