The wife of a top cop in Paris is approached by a stranger quoting Scarborough Fair. That starts a chain of events that leads to a possible terrorist attack in Berlin on the Ides of March.
Though the plot, especially where it eventually lands at the end, is intriguing, the getting there was a lot tougher. There’s quite a few boring info dumps, and I skipped a whole section that was clearly an ill-disguised author diatribe. The end-of-chapter foreshadowings were annoying and amateurish. The thing about ventricles was cute, but the author had to keep going and make it boring. And once the big thing happens in the middle of the book, it slows down quite a bit.
Good plot, some amateurish touches. Author should get better with more experience.
2.5 pushed up to 3/5

Boy this grabbed me from the beginning. It was a great read, very suspenseful.

A stranger turns and asks a woman a question, she then responds with the next line of a famous old English folk song and the stranger walks away. From start to finish I loved this book. A really good crime / mystery that keeps you engaged throughout would really recommend.