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A review by jacki_f
The Blood Card by Elly Griffiths
3.0
This is the third book in the series about DI Edgar Stephens and his friend, the magician Max Mephisto. You'll enjoy it more if you've read the others in the series as half the charm lies in the relationships between the ensemble of characters. It's also not as good as the others in the series.
The characters are terrific and the setting - Britain in 1953 on the eve of the Queen's Coronation - is vividly conveyed. But the plot is convoluted, confusing and ultimately nonsensical.
I still enjoyed this and I am curious to see how the characters' lives will develop in the next instalment, but as a crime novel it's pretty weak.
The characters are terrific and the setting - Britain in 1953 on the eve of the Queen's Coronation - is vividly conveyed. But the plot is convoluted, confusing and ultimately nonsensical.
I still enjoyed this and I am curious to see how the characters' lives will develop in the next instalment, but as a crime novel it's pretty weak.