A review by lian_tanner
The Crystal Skull by Manda Scott

3.0

There's an intrinsic risk in writing a book which interweaves two different and separate story lines - it's almost inevitable that one will be more intriguing than the other, and that the reader will want to skip ahead to follow the more interesting one. This is what happened for me is 'The Crystal Skull'. For the first few chapters I liked the modern strand more - but I quickly became more interested in the historical strand, which was more convincing and the characters more sympathetic. I like Manda Scott's writing, but I enjoyed her early thrillers more than her later books. The present-day story line in this book didn't quite ring true, for some reason.