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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Investigating a murder committed in the style of a famous magic trick, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens reconnects with an illusionist friend from World War II to uncover links to their special ops service.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Max Mephisto and his daughter Ruby are headlining Brighton Hippodrome, an achievement only slightly marred by the less-than-savoury support act: a tableau show of naked 'living statues'. This might appear to have nothing in common with DI Edgar Stephens' current case of the death of a quiet flowerseller, but if there's one thing the old comrades have learned it's that, in Brighton, the line between art and life - and death - is all too easily blurred...
Author
Publisher
Tom Gould
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
261 pages
Description
"When Sophia discovers a book of spells in her convent's forbidden shelves, she rejects the vows she will soon be compelled to take, vowing instead to freelance as a magician. She takes the name of power Karamines, but the spells are not quite as advertised. Her first commission earns the enmity of the powerful Magician's Guild. Confrontations follow with a witch-burning priest; his African slave, a magician named Mutafassi with an agenda of his own,...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
Description
In prison, accused of murder, Tully Truegood begins to write her life story. A story that takes her from a young girl in the backstreets of 18th century London to her stepmother Queenie's Fairy House--a place where decadent excess is a must... Trained by Queenie to become a courtesan, and by Mr. Crease--a magician who sees that Tully holds similar special powers to his own--Tully soon becomes the talk of the town. But as Tully goes on a journey of...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his new act in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest thriller featuring Robin Lockwood Robin Lockwood is a young criminal defense attorney and partner in a prominent law firm in Portland, Oregon. A former MMA fighter and Yale Law graduate, she joined the firm of legal legend Regina Barrister not long before Regina was forced into retirement...
Author
Description
"Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Now, she's trying to distance herself from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"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. *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...
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