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Now you see them / Elly Griffiths.
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Booklist Reviews 2019 October #2
*Starred Review* In this fifth Magic Men mystery (after The Vanishing Box, 2018), Griffiths pulls off an amazing sleight of hand by moving her characters 11 years forward in time and planting them smack in the middle of the early 1960s. Brighton, England, police detective Edgar Stephens, now promoted to superintendent, is happily married with children to a sometimes frustrated Emma (née Holmes), who is missing her life as a brilliant detective. When a string of girls goes missing, Emma uses her connection with Sam Collins, a reporter for the local paper, to set herself up as a potential victim, unbeknownst to Edgar, and she gets in way over her head, putting herself and her [their?] daughter, Marianne, in danger. Magician Max Mephisto, also married with young children and now a movie star in America, gets involved when his grown daughter Ruby, a British TV personality, also disappears. The thrill of the chase makes Max ponder whether the fantasy life he created in Hollywood can compare to his earlier existence, which followed a best-of-times-worst-of-times pattern. As always, Griffiths creates an authentic sense of time and place—the Cold War still exerting its chill, and Britain besotted by the Beatles. Readers will eagerly await more to come. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
LJ Reviews 2019 May
Several girls have disappeared, and Det. Edgar Stephens and magician friend Max Mephisto are on the case. But the real movers here are Edgar's wife, Emma, restless at home and eager to prove that she's still the best detective around, and an ambitious new woman on the force.
Copyright 2019 Library Journal.LJ Reviews 2019 December
In 1960s Brighton, UK, Beatlemania and miniskirts are in full swing. DS Edgar Stephens and his pal, magician Max Mephisto, have their careers well in hand and Edgar's wife, the former DS Emma Holmes, is a stay-at-home mom. When a string of young girls goes missing, likely victims of kidnapping, Edgar and his team snap into best detecting mode, and Emma sinks into restless frustration, knowing she's the best detective for the job but unable to convince her husband to let her return to work—this is the 1960s, after all. But when Max's daughter Ruby and then Edgar's daughter Marianne become victims as well, Emma goes rogue to solve the case and find the girls.
PW Reviews 2019 October #2
Set in 1964, Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths's fine fifth Magic Men mystery (after 2017's
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