Magic for Liars

paperback, 352 pages

Published May 5, 2020 by Tor Trade.

ISBN:
978-1-250-17462-8
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4 stars (43 reviews)

Everyone has a secret...

MURDER MYSTERY MADNESS MAGIC

What are you hiding?

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3 stars

The premise sounds great: non-magical private investigator hired to investigate a murder in a Hogwarts-ish school of magic. Ivy Gamble, PI, sister to the very talented magic teacher Tabitha Gamble, is brought in when the "official" investigation of the murder declares it to be a self-inflicted accident. The rest of the book follows Ivy's efforts to solve a magical murder in a magic high school without knowing the first thing about magic herself.

This sounds like it could be an intriguing book and indeed it could have been. It almost was, it's still fairly readable, but Ivy makes so many ridiculous and inexplicable decisions, and suddenly knows about magic at exactly the critical times despite supposedly knowing nothing about it the rest of the time, that I was half expecting her to be revealed to have been a suppressed magic prodigy all these years. But no, it just doesn't make …

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