A review by nigellicus
Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense

5.0

Life under the New Management, an eldritch metaphor for Brexit and evrything that follows with it if ever there was one, ain't easy, even if you've got what the public mistakenly identify as 'superpowers.' A rag-tag bunch of shoplifters, an executive assistant to an evil mega-rich cultist and an ex-cop gone private, all get caught up in complicated scheme to get hold of a magical book that kills everyone eho touches it. With the usual Laundry Files eye for the mundanities of life, whether it be tangling with HR, social welfare or double entry book-keeping, plus every character having a superpower, plus powerful people being very evil, plus a family history tied up with the rise and fall and rise of magic, there's loads going on, it moves fast and gets all tied up nicely, notwithstanding that it's the first in a... trilogy? I think?