A review by maura_kathleen
The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

 It seems like every other month I find myself googling "chess mystery painting" to try to remember the name of that book that I read for my honors program ahead of freshman year. This was that book. The challenge of backwards resolving the chess match in the painting and determining its implications was very interesting. The characters I recall being a more mixed bag.

(Declining to provide star ratings for books that I last read before 2019.)