over blown Dune novel eaten by worms

read the prequel  prequel Dune universe novel  the sisterhood of dune by brian herbert and kevin J anderson  a long novel of remarkable little story telling the ancestry of house corrino house harkonnen and house Everyone Else   written by the son of Dune creator Frank herbert   it reads like a bad Peter F Hamilton space opera with less plot   and no originality  one for the  mass market  and for the money

kingdom of light by guilio leoni   a novel about dante the detective set in 14th century florence and dealing with the  search lost treasure of emperor frederick II from 50 years before    full of secret conspiracy and  secter brotherhoods   starts well with a ship  arriving  full of a dead crew  but too much plot not used well  either it was about islamic science brought to a disbelieving or  court conspiracies from long ago   (one or the other please)  finishes on  a second rate "Name of the Rose" conclusion about a  long lost scientific device that threatens the world  and really does very little  characters appear just to be killed off   and the  murderer is signposted early

In search of a masterpiece  a art lovers tour of britian and ireland  a tour of galleries  and their best art  large section on london  but minute on edinburgh, wales and Eire  do they really have few museums   space for laing art gallery preston museum and  Tate St Ives    showed the best art  in their collection so do not need to go there now

Masters of Crime: Fiction's Finest Villains and Their Real-life Inspirations   riproaring tales about jonathan wils, jack shepherd and moll cutpurse  and their origins in rather unsavoury real life crimes, section on the inspiration for professor Moriarty and how every black art satanist magician in print is really only based on Aleister Crowley and his publicity