"Third time pays for all" or so the saying goes. Yet, in the world of trilogies, it's often the final part which lets the side down, providing an unsatisfactory climax to an otherwise excellent series. And so it proves in The Gilded Seal, the third in James Twining's novels featuring reformed art thief Tom Kirk. It's not that The Gilded Seal is a bad it's just that, when compared with its predecessors, it lacks the same sense of sparkle and zip. Part of the problem is that the plot always feels a little silly. The first two books (centring on a rare coin and a lost Nazi secret) were based on fact and so always felt plausible. The Gilded ...  Read the complete review