In London the acclaimed psychiatrist Dr Anselm Rees and his equally skilled daughter Lidia have moved from Austrian and settled into a new home. Its therefore fitting in Tom Mead’s very entertaining crime novel Death and The Conjuror not just that we have seemingly impossible crimes to solve but that this time our Detective themselves is a skilled stage magician applying his skills in a very different way. The Detective is usually the one wondering on our behalf ‘how did you do that?’ and both them and the audience eventually get to see the big reveal. Both work hard to create an atmosphere hold the audience in suspense and reveal that while you were looking at the corpse here you should have paid more attention to the clue over there. The art of the Magician and the Crime Writer has a lot in common.
And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize the crime wave will become even more deadly unless they can catch the culprit soon. As he and the Inspector interview the colourful cast of suspects, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets. Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. Stumped by the confounding scene, Inspector Flint, the Scotland Yard detective on the case, calls on retired stage magician turned part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. A celebrity psychiatrist is discovered dead in his locked study.
I would like to thank Aries Fiction and Anne from Random Things Tours for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest reviewġ936, London.
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