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Elly Griffiths
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“Another great series.”—San Jose Mercury News
“A dazzlingly tricky mystery.”—Kirkus Reviews
“A tremendous skein of red herrings, sharp and thorough police work, [and] mysterious connections.”—Bookgasm
It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto’s star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were found in the woods alongside a trail of candy—a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of “Hansel and Gretel.”
Edgar has plenty of leads. Annie, a dark child, wrote gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her final script? Or does the macabre staging of the bodies point to the theater and the capricious cast of Aladdin? Edgar enlists Max’s help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
“Excellent . . . Evoking both the St. Mary Mead of Agatha Christie and the theater world of Ngaio Marsh.”—Booklist
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Becoming Sherlock - The Red Circle
- Becoming Sherlock, Book 1
- By: Sarah J. Naughton, Anthony Horowitz
- Narrated by: Alfred Enoch
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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We are 40 years into the future, and London is a city in decay. John Watson has returned from medical service in the war in Afghanistan and lives by himself in a run-down part of town. On his way home from work, he stumbles upon a beaten man in the street – unconscious and completely naked. His chances of survival are minimal. The same evening, a passenger plane crashes in Richmond Park. There are several hundred victims, and Watson and the mysterious man are left to their own devices.
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So creative!
- By Joshua B. Wager on 03-11-25
By: Sarah J. Naughton, and others