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Brighton Mysteries

Smoke and Mirrors

“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


Author:

  • Elly Griffiths

Narrator:

  • Daniel Philpott

Series:

  • Volume 2 in Brighton Mysteries

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 12 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Crime
  • Police procedurals
  • Crime
  • Historical crime

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    Elly Griffiths

    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.

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