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Smoke and Mirrors de Elly Griffiths

Smoke and Mirrors

Autor Elly Griffiths
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2017

La intersecția dintre The Zig Zag Girl și The Vanishing Box, acest roman polițist combină atmosfera tensionată a investigației criminale cu iluzionismul spectaculos al scenei. Brighton. Crăciun. Zăpadă. Atmosfera festivă este spulberată brutal. Descoperim aici o scenă a crimei care sfidează rațiunea: doi copii abandonați în pădure, înconjurați de dulciuri. Este o oglindire sinistră a basmului Hansel și Gretel. DI Edgar Stephens se confruntă cu un caz care pare regizat. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Elly Griffiths folosește teatrul ca paravan pentru crimă. Max Mephisto, magicianul vedetă în spectacolul Aladdin, devine din nou aliatul poliției. Investigăm împreună cu ei culisele întunecate ale varieteului britanic din anii '50. Ritmul este alert. Propozițiile sunt tăioase. Descoperirea unor piese de teatru violente scrise de micuța Annie adaugă un strat de neliniște lecturii. Este acest caz o simplă eroare de direcționare, specifică magicienilor? Spre deosebire de tonul mai așezat din The Man in Black and Other Stories, aici tensiunea este constantă. Smoke and Mirrors păstrează rigoarea istorică și farmecul retro, dar injectează o doză de macabru care ne ține în alertă. Griffiths demonstrează aceeași măiestrie în construcția misterului ca în seria Ruth Galloway, însă aici accentul cade pe dualitatea dintre realitate și spectacol. Totul este un joc de oglinzi unde adevărul se ascunde la vedere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328745590
ISBN-10: 1328745597
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Smoke and Mirrors celor care apreciază romanele polițiste clasice, în stilul Agathei Christie, dar caută o atmosferă mai întunecată și un context istoric bine documentat. Cititorul câștigă o incursiune fascinantă în lumea teatrului britanic postbelic și o intrigă polițistă inteligentă, unde basmele fraților Grimm devin indicii vitale într-o cursă contra cronometru pentru prinderea unui criminal ingenios.

Despre autor

Elly Griffiths este o autoare de succes, cunoscută publicului pentru seriile Ruth Galloway și The Brighton Mysteries. Distinsă cu premiul Mary Higgins Clark, ea s-a impus în literatura polițistă contemporană prin capacitatea de a crea atmosfere dense și personaje memorabile. Lucrările sale, precum The Last Word sau The Frozen People, explorează adesea legătura dintre trecut și prezent, fie prin arheologie, fie prin istoria socială a Marii Britanii. În seria dedicată lui Max Mephisto, Griffiths valorifică pasiunea sa pentru teatrul de varietate și misterele epocii de aur a crimei.

Descriere scurtă

“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  

Recenzii

"An entertaining read and could be followed up with some of the author’s other novels."--Historical Novel Society   "Griffiths’ success with this series bodes well for future books...will continue to look for the name of Elly Griffiths, no matter which series she is writing."--Bookgasm    "A magician's misdirections may provide the clue that solves three murders in 1950s Brighton. DI Edgar Stephens and his team are desperately seeking two children who have gone missing. Twelve-year-old Mark Webster and his 13-year-old friend Annie Francis came home from school, went out to play, and vanished. When their snow-covered bodies are found, Stephens is desperate to find the killer. Along with sergeants Bob Willis and Emma Holmes, he canvasses the area, questioning everyone, including the owner of the sweets shop near the disappearance and the man the children call Uncle Brian, who has a theater set up in his garage. The investigation leaves Stephens scant time for his old friend Max Mephisto, a famous magician reduced to playing in a pantomime show on Brighton Pier, who wants to help. Not only did they serve together in World War II in a special group recruited by MI5 to fool the Germans, but Max helped Stephens solve a tough case (The Zig Zag Girl, 2015) when he first arrived to serve with the Brighton force. Annie, despite her lower-class background, was extremely bright and wrote plays that cast her friends and relatives. Stunning teacher Daphne Young encouraged her pupil's talent in adapting gruesome versions of fairy tales. But before she can reveal something she realizes may help the police, she's found strangled. Although the team follows every clue, including a possible tie to a 1912 theatrical murder, the solution remains tantalizingly out of reach. A dazzlingly tricky mystery, oddball characters, and an authentic feel for life in post-World War II England."--Kirkus    "Set in Brighton, England, in 1951, Griffith’s captivating sequel to 2015’s Zig Zag Girl finds Det. Insp. Edgar Stephens embroiled in a grim holiday hunt for the murderer of two children. Like an unnerving scene from a fairy tale, a trail of candy in the snow leads to the bodies of Annie Francis, a 13-year-old with a talent for writing, and Mark Webster, her constant companion of similar age. As Stephens searches for a killer, tension grows in the town. Is the murderer the candy-store owner and the last to see them alive, or the quirky bachelor who helped the victims stage plays? Matters become more complicated when magician Max Mephisto, Stephen’s friend, appears with a disturbingly similar tale of an earlier murder. Is an actor in the Christmas pantomime connected to the long-ago murder of a young performer? Are the present-day murders a reenactment? Stephens and his team must sort through misdirection and vanishing acts before another child dies in this suspenseful outing."--Publishers Weekly   "WWII special-ops veterans DCI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto, the “Magic Men” of The Zig Zag Girl (2015), are back. Two children have been murdered, their bodies left in a bizarre Hansel-and-Gretel tableau. When the teacher of one of the victims is also found dead, the Grimm link becomes even stronger. The investigation plays out in a bitterly cold and snowy winter in 1951 Brighton, shortly before Christmas. The sense of time and place is very strong. The postwar rationing of heating fuel is chilling. Wear warm socks for this one. Griffiths’ ability to assemble a cast of eccentric characters from the townsfolk and the shadowy theater world makes for a credible suspect list, although how the author manages (along with her engaging Ruth Galloway books) to maintain two superlative series is the real mystery here. An excellent —

Notă biografică

Elly Griffiths is the USA Today bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, The Postscript Murders, and Bleeding Heart Yard. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England.

Descriere

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Brighton, 1950s, mid-winter. Two missing children are found buried under snow in this chilling new case for DI Stephens and Max Mephisto. Max's star turn in Aladdin has been overshadowed by the murder ­­of two local children. With fairy tales in the air, it's not long before the press have found a nickname for the case: 'Hansel and Gretel'.

'An excellent whodunnit, matched by the terrific down-at-heel atmosphere of postwar Brighton' - The Times

DI Edgar Stephens has plenty of leads to investigate. The missing girl, Annie, used to write plays and perform them with her friends. Does the clue lie in Annie's unfinished - and rather disturbing - last script? Or might it lie with the eccentric actor types who have assembled for the pantomime?

Once again Edgar enlists Max's help in penetrating the shadowy theatrical world that seems to hold the key. But is this all just classic misdirection?