The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths - it's Brighton in 1950 and parts of the body of a young woman have just been found. It reminds Edgar Stephens of a magician's act performed by Max Mephisto, an old friend from the war. The two of them join forces when it looks like someone has got their sights on their unit from WWII, the Magic Men. A new series by the author of the Ruth Galloway series, this didn't engage me quite as much. I'll still read the next in the series. A low
3 stars
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi - a collections of short stories with absolutely no meaning whatsoever as far as I could tell. The blurb said they interconnect but I didn't find it. Confession: I skipped the last two stories as I was exhausted from the tedium of trying to find an actual story.
1 star
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Wrath of the Furies by Steven Saylor - the third in the Ancient World Series, these are the stories of Gordianus the Finder when he was a young man. The ancient world is in upheaval with Mithidrates conquering Roman Asia, Italian states rebelling against Rome, and a coup in Egypt. Among all this, Gordianus sails to Ephesus to find his old tutor who may be in some trouble. He gets there just in time to be caught up in a plot to kill all the Romans in town. I first met Gordianus in the Roma Sub Rosa series and enjoyed this younger version of him.
3 stars
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