Smoke and Mirrors
In the sequel to the captivating * Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale.
It s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, strangled to death in the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candy a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie s and Mark s deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max s help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
* Wall Street Journal
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It s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, strangled to death in the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candy a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie s and Mark s deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max s help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
* Wall Street Journal
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FictionMystery & DetectivePolice ProceduralTraditionalWomen SleuthsHistorical
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH338
LANGUAGEEN
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa[1] (born 17 August 1963, in London),[2] a British crime novelist. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.
Smoke and Mirrors
In the sequel to the captivating * Zig Zag Girl, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale.
It s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, strangled to death in the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candy a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie s and Mark s deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max s help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
* Wall Street Journal
"
It s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring the marvelous Max Mephisto. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, strangled to death in the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candy a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie s and Mark s deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max s help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
* Wall Street Journal
"
FictionMystery & DetectivePolice ProceduralTraditionalWomen SleuthsHistoricalInternational Crime & Mystery
RELEASED2016
PUBLISHERHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
LENGTH338
LANGUAGEEN
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa[1] (born 17 August 1963, in London),[2] a British crime novelist. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.
