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Lädt ... Now You See Themvon Elly Griffiths
![]() Books Read in 2019 (559) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() ![]() The disappearance of 3 young women who have left similar goodbye notes sparks an investigation. And then the body of one of them is discovered and is followed by the disappearance of Ruby Magic, Max Mephisto's daughter. Ruby has also left a note telling people not to worry. But Ruby has missed work, an left her cat locked up in her flat. Meanwhile Edgar Stephens' wife Emma is very much feeling underused and left out. She was one of the first female detective sergeants in the country, but she resigned on her marriage. Emma feels she could still make a useful contribution. In the long run it is Emma who eventually works out what has happened to the girls. Set in the 1960s, the plot definitely shows how things are changing. Max has been asked to accept a role in a film with a film star of some prominence. “Three girls have left. None have come back.” I’m not sure what I can say about this one other than it was dull, dull, dull. I get that in the 1960’s attitudes towards women and their perceived role in life was different but that did not make reading about a housewife who wants more any less boring. The other characters were not exactly engaging or lifelike either. I don’t think any character was happy or living their best life! I have been reading Griffiths' other detective series (the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries) and picked up this one secondhand, thinking it was in the same series. Instead, it is no 5 in a different series (the Brighton Mysteries). Double blunder (wrong series/ out of order) on my part. It was a perfectly fine read, though with a fair number in the Ruth Galloway series still to go, I will concentrate on them. If I am still looking for more from Griffiths' after that I will go back to the beginning of this series and see how I go. Big Ship 5 July 2023 I've read the whole series up till this one but even after 5 books, only Max seems pretty real to me as a character (usually). Edgar is still a cipher, and Emma, in this book, seems to be more of a proto-feminist role player than an actual person. The last couple of chapters of seemed so phony, I was just rolling my eyes waiting for the end.
Griffiths mixes well-defined characters with a clever plot. A character-driven tale of troubled relationships in a rapidly changing 1960s England that’s wrapped in an excellent mystery. Gehört zur Reihe
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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