Magic Men Mysteries #2
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 2016
On Sale: October 18, 2016
Featuring: DI Edgar Stephens; Max Mephisto
352 pages ISBN: 054452795X EAN: 9780544527959 Kindle: B01912P01Q Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Itβs 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. Heβs investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were strangled to death in the woods, abandoned alongside a trail of candyβa horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel.
Edgar has plenty of leads to investigate. Annie, a surprisingly dark child, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms' fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her unfinished final script? Or does the macabre staging of Annie and Markβs deaths point to the theater and the capricious cast of characters performing in Aladdin? Once again Edgar enlists Max's help in penetrating the shadowy world of the theater. But is this all just classic misdirection?
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