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After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder and betrayal.

The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest in an ancient town where Christianity laid its roots in England.

Aided by the enigmatic professor Lucius Doberman, Joe and his team must solve the ancient mystery that lies in the shadows of Glastonbury, or die trying.

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★★★★★ - "One of the most fun reads I have encountered this year. Porter has provided a great cast of ensemble players and a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Loved it."

★★★★★ - "A great read. I highly recommend this to mystery fans everywhere."

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"Mr. Porter has taken his amazing imagination, a lot of research and strong talent to create a tale that shows the ordinary as the extraordinary. Glastonbury is guaranteed to entertain and ensnare." --Kristina Dalton, Author of 'Taken'

"Porter has created a gem of a novel. Bit by bit, it pulls you in, just one more page, just one more chapter, and before you know it the whole thing is unfolding towards the epic conclusion."

Graeme S Houston, CEO, Mythica Publishing

"The villains Porter has created in this book are truly easy to despise and the heroes are a pleasure to root for.The surprise ending is sure to catch you off guard."

Terri at CK2S Kwips&Kritques.com --CK2S Kwips & Kritiques

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NFQT750
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creativia; 5th edition (September 8, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 8, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 810 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 312 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #525,984 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #138 in Contemporary British Fiction
- #138 in Religious Biblical Fiction
- #192 in British Contemporary Literature

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Winner - The Critters.org Best Mystery Novel Award 2021, The Mersey Ferry Murders

Winner - The Readfree.ly Best Indie Book, 2021 Award, Muffin, Digby and Petal, Together Forever

Winner - The Readfree.ly 'Best Book We've Read all Year, 2021 Award, June 2021 (Pestilence)

Winner - The Readfree.ly 'Best Book We've Read all Year, 2018 Award, June 2018 (A Mersey Maiden)

Writing under three different names, Brian L Porter is an Amazon best selling author, with numerous best sellers to his name, so far, titles as follows:

Sasha (As Brian L Porter), the illustrated true-life story of the author's own, very special 'Miracle Dog'. Winner of The Preditors & Editors Best Fiction Book Award, 2016, and also a 7th place finish in the 50 Best Indie Books of 2016 Awards. #1 bestseller in the UK, Australia and Italy. Sasha has also been a Top Ten bestseller in its category at Amazon in Canada and France.

Sheba, From Hell to Happiness, sequel to Sasha, the true-life story of a dog rescued from a life of hell as a bait dog for dog fighters, then left to die on a rubbish tip.

Remembering Dexter is the winner of 3 literary awards

After Armageddon (As Brian L Porter), A Post-Apocalyptic short story anthology. #1 in the USA and UK.

The Italian translated version of After Armageddon, Dopo L'Armageddon, e Altri Raccontri was a #1 Amazon bestseller in Italy.

Lest We Forget, (As Brian L Porter), an evocative collection of remembrance poetry.

Alistair the Alligator, (As Harry Porter), a pre-school children’s book, illustrated by Sharon Lewis.

Charlie the Caterpillar, (As Harry Porter), also for pre-school readers, illustrated by Bonnie Pelton.

Wolf, (As Harry Porter), a young adult/teens adventure story.

Of Aztecs and Conquistadors, (As Juan Pablo Jalisco), a superb collection of romantic poetry with a Latin American theme.

He was the winner of The Preditors & Editors readers poll for Best Author Award, 2009, and a number of his books have also received awards as follows:

A Study in Red – The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper, Preditors & Editors Best Thriller Novel Award, 2008.

Requiem for the Ripper, Preditors & Editors Best Thriller Novel Award, 2010.

Glastonbury, Preditors & Editors Best Mystery Novel Award, 2010

You can find information on the works of Harry Porter and Juan Pablo Jalisco on their individual book pages.

He is a dedicated dog lover and rescuer and he and his wife share their home with a number of rescued dogs.

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Connield

A good solid read - worth your time

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018

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This caught my eye because of a visit to Glastonbury several years ago. Joe Cutler and his crew are hired to find a treasure at the area of the Glastonbury Tor. He is employed by a very nasty couple of businessmen who are basically a front for criminals. What ensues is the process of scanning the grounds while trying to figure out what is really going on. A mystery, some murders, some twists and turns and an exciting finale. A bit of a cliff hanger at the end which leaves open the possibility of further books. A good solid read - worth your time.

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“Excalibur!”

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2020

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"Glastonbury! The name itself conjures up mental images of the England of long ago. Here in the heart of the ancient county of Somerset, stands the home of the first above-ground Christian church in England, the ruins of a centuries old abbey, and the whole town is overlooked by the imposing Glastonbury Tor, with the crumbling remains of St Michael’s chapel… Glastonbury throbs with legend; it is said the bones of Joseph of Arimathea were laid to rest here, as were the remains of the legendary King Arthur… Was the Holy Grail really brought here all those years ago? Is it still buried in some long forgotten secret niche known only to those whose bones have long since crumbled to nothing…"

Such is the setting of Brian L. Porter’s GLASTONBURY (2014). The owner of Strata Survey Company, Joe Cutler, is made an amazing offer. The very wealthy Malcolm Capshaw, known for donating “vast sums to charities over the years,” investing “in projects around the world to recover historical artefacts” and funding “a whole range of archaeological expeditions in the last ten years,” has in his possession a centuries old map. Faded and hard to read and with the terrain of the area having changed immensely over the years, Capshaw believes the map shows the general vicinity of where King Arthur’s famous sword, Excalibur, was purposefully buried away from the legendary king’s body to protect the sword from thieves who might someday discover Arthur’s body and also obtain the awesome symbol of the fabled sovereign’s power. Although highly skeptical of the map and most certainly of the Arthurian legends surrounding Glastonbury, Capshaw’s enthusiasm, reputation, and the money he is offering Cutler is too hard to ignore as Cutler and his team including twenty-four-year old Sally Corbett and Jamaican born Winston Fortune agree to use their experience, skills and equipment to find the legendary sword and see it displayed properly “behind glass in the British Museum, brightly illuminated so that all could see it.” Assisting them in the field will be the noted professor and “historical expert,” Walter Graves, who will help serve the team with his research regarding the much-changed terrain around Glastonbury and Glastonbury Tor and to narrow down the search for the precious, buried relic.

The word which best encompasses GLASTONBURY from beginning to end is: deception. Readers expecting an eerie, mystical tale such as might be penned by Phil Rickman or H. E. Bulstrode will quickly learn that isn’t what they are getting. Instead, GLASTONBURY is a story more akin to what Clive Cussler might pen—an adventurous search for a treasure surrounded by mystery, subterfuge, and murder. Under Capshaw’s orders, the Strata Survey Company is to put out the word they are searching for evidence of Joseph of Arimathea having once been in the area of Glastonbury. There is to be no mention of Excalibur to protect the mission. Capshaw, himself, is not to be mentioned and stays far away from the physical search while being kept up to date by Professor Graves. As the Strata team get further involved in the assignment and spend days in the Glastonbury area, they begin to question exactly what they are really searching for. A grisly discovery they make with seemingly no connection to Excalibur heightens the mistrust and suspicion already entering their minds along with what Capshaw’s real motive behind the search might be as well as the role of Walter Graves. Thus, the team turns to an expert of their own, another historian, Lucius Doberman, who calls upon other resources including an eighty-five-year old historian, Sir Marcus Farthingwood, with “vast knowledge of the world and myriad subjects.” As the web of mystery and danger surrounding the hunt for Excalibur deepens, it becomes readily obvious that some of the characters in GLASTONBURY are nothing like who they claim to be and the reader realizes they have not only a mystery in their hands, but a crime thriller.

Brian L Porter propels his novel forward in a most intriguing fashion—largely through the use of his characters’ dialogue as much as anything. In so doing, there is a certain amount of repetition which readers may actually welcome in keeping straight all of the details of what the Strata team may or may not be encountering. Porter deftly utilizes foreshadowing, sometimes in an illusory fashion, and also strikes a vivid picture of Lucius Doberman by depicting him as having the physical looks and voice strikingly like a most popular and unique English actor which makes each appearance of the historian most likely a treat for many readers.

For a crime thriller, GLASTONBURY is fairly devoid of violence for most of its pages, however that is but another deception on the author’s part. When violence does strike, it is so sudden and unexpected, the reader is most certain to be taken back in dismay.

As the Strata team begins to put the pieces together of what they are up against and one of the characters, forced by time constraints as well as forces he must conform to ups his aggressiveness to win what has become a contest of wills, GLASTONBURY plunges forward at a rapid speed.

In keeping with the theme of deception, Porter introduces a major twist toward the end of the book which may not be the most probable of events to take place in the novel, but it does lend itself to a reasonable answer to what lies beneath the soil of Glastonbury which has been so desperately sought and why and by whom. An Epilogue provides answers to the fate of a number of the characters and also leaves the readers with the possibility of further adventures for the Strata Survey Company. Altogether, GLASTONBURY provides for an entertaining read.

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Doro schreibt

some flaws, but entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2018

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As with suspense, this was a rather solid work. And it was entertaining to read.
But there is a hole in the plot that got the author to find an easy -lazy - way to move the story forward: (spoiler) the girl could not hve been abducted , as the two partners had promised to have her back. Nonetheless they left her alone with the bad guy? Big flaw in the story.
And the end came as a completely unexpected change of roles. that went wrong too,because the author did not lay the groundwork for it.
Very mystery, yes, but not well done.
Noneheless, if you look for some entertaining suspense, it's worht the while.

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Reba

Twists and turns abound!

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017

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Well written, believable and likeable characters. This book will keep you interested and on your toes, with a surprise ending. I'm looking forward to the next one.

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Berk Rourke

Ground Penetrating Radar?

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016

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In any book by Brian L. Porter the first thing you notice is how well the characters are created, fleshed out. Once the characters are in evidence and known then you begin to see the story unfold, piece by piece. In each of his stories you also see a great similarity in writing style to that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes stories. One fact takes you to another, to another and soon you are scratching your head and wondering just what the hell is going on? And then you find out, but not before a number of other pieces of the story unfold. It is a beautiful way to tell a tale. And Mr. Porter does it in a fashion beyond compare.
This tale unfolds as a "Survey Company" called Strata, begins to search for the sword of King Arthur. Well that is what they are told they are searching for. Maps ostensibly created hundreds of years earlier are the basis for the search. In fact they find they have fallen in with a ruthless criminal element that probably means to kill all three of them, the three main characters. But they continue, and continue whilst enlisting the assistance of some others. And then the twists and returns begin. Keep alert. You might figure it out. Or not.
I enjoyed this book immensely. Brian L. Porter is a wonderful writer and creates wonderful stories. This one I think it is fair to say is one of his best in many ways. I recommend it to anyone above the age of say 16 and I only place that limit on age in my recommendation because of a slight necessity for the use of sex and violence in the book. A tour de force of Glastonbury, England and the mind of Brian L. Porter.

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Ellen Oceanside

ANCIENT TALE

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

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Isle of Avalon, and King Arthur legend. People over the years have died to protect it, with this author he brings England to life for us. Filled with twist and turns, a legend worth reading about. A first to read his work and enjoyed

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John Broughton

Enigmatic characters with a twist

Reviewed in Italy on October 27, 2021

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I can imagine other readers, like myself, thinking ‘I should have seen that coming.’ But don’t beat yourself up, Brian Porter is a master of the unexpected twist, but he is always credible with it. Glastonbury is a remarkable novel, not just for the foregoing, but also for the strong characterisation. Set in the Somerset countryside this mystery teems with enigmatic characters, ambiguous London crime lords and honest hardworking surveyors. This fast-paced story, offering a taste of archaeology amid the suspense, gripped me from the start so that I read it in three days. I will recommend it with 5-stars.

Elizabeth Taylor

Another brilliant mystery by one of my favourite authors that will keep you in suspense!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2020

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As always, the author keeps the reader in suspense until the end!
Brilliantly written and researched.
Glastonbury is not just a place the modern generation associate with music festivals, but also a place steeped in history and legend, with a strong belief with some that the Holy Grail and fortune of legendary King Arthur’s Camelot are buried in this ancient and hallowed place.
The mystery unfolds when an experienced team of Joe Cutler, Winston Fortune and Sally Corbett are hired by a rich businessman to search the area where an ‘ancient’ map seems to pinpoint where it may be found, using specialist search equipment they agree to the deal which could make them rich and famous in the archeological world.
Little did they realise the danger they would find themselves in!
The story unfolds....I won’t say anymore that will give any clues as to what transpires! Suffice to say, so many red herrings, twists and turns will keep you guessing until the last few pages!
Another fantastic book by one of my favourite authors 👍🏼😊

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sharon elvish

I am not a professional critique but know what I enjoy and will recommend to my peers

Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2014

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This was the first book by this author that I have read. I am not a professional critique but know what I enjoy and will recommend to my peers. Glastonbury kept my interest to the very end. The characters were believable and interesting to follow. The story line kept me coming back for more and the ending was a wonderful surprising twist. If you haven't read Brian Porter yet I would highly urge you to start now. You won't be disappointed and will want more. I am now on another book by the same author and look forward to getting all of his offerings and enjoying each one probably more then the last.

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Renee C.

Disturbing content of sexual violence

Reviewed in Canada on May 7, 2023

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I gave it 2 stars because it held my attention for a while but it was too wordy and repetitive with the conversations in the pub. It would take an idiot not to realize that the gangsters had to be looking for valuable goods under the ground. I stuck with it because I wanted to see the female victim of this violence get some justice but was shocked and disgusted to find what the author did to this character. I would not buy any more of his books based upon this one.

a really good thriller Louise B

super read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2023

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this author aways leaves you guessing the outcome of his books .I have read many of his, unusual take on thrillers especially the RIPPER BOOKS

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