Mary T. (MaryTheCat) reviewed on + 15 more book reviews
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Perhaps my favorite murder mystery of all time, a police-procedural with engaging, fully-realized characters, and a back-story laid out in a second plot line narrated by Jane Doe, who went to Africa to study their cultures and came back an apprentice witch. Gruber manages to suggest a scientific biochemistry/physiology explanation for the witch-work, so that it does not read as fantasy, but even as you emerge blinking from the world of this novel wishing it could go on for a thousand pages more, you are glad it isn't really true. Brilliantly imagined, beautifully written, a superb work of fiction.
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