This fifth book in the Magic Men series is a mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s.
Griffiths pulls off an amazing sleight of hand by moving her characters 11 years forward in time and planting them smack in the middle of the early 1960s ... As always, Griffiths creates an authentic sense of time and place—the Cold War still exerting its chill, and Britain besotted by the Beatles. Readers will eagerly await more to come.
The fifth in Griffiths’s Magic Men series is written with a lighter touch and quirkier characters than her Ruth Galloway archaeological mysteries. Nevertheless, it’s a highly entertaining read with a spot-on portrayal of the manners and mores of the 1960s.
Griffiths mixes well-defined characters with a clever plot. Her examination of the place of women in 1960s British society should appeal to readers of procedurals and historical fiction fans.
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