![]() ![]() From here on out the novel is pretty much a basic murder mystery (albeit set in Clark’s wonderfully imagined fantastical alternate universe). The meeting is ended quite suddenly (not to mention brutally) when a veiled man dressed all in black appears claiming to be al-Jahiz himself, and magically murders the entire party.Ĭut to our erstwhile hero, Fatma el-Sha’arawi, one of the few women investigators working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities. often stealing) artifacts connected with al-Jahiz, the mysterious historical figure who opened up the veil between the human world and the realm of djinn, “angels,” and other magical creatures. Picking up a bit after the initial novella, A Master of Djinn opens on a meeting of a “secret society” of mostly old white men who are bent on collecting (i.e. ![]() I have a few friends that, whenever we get together, we compare “what we’ve been reading” lists, and in one of those conversations a friend brought up A Master of Djinn, and based on her recommendation and my previous experience with the author’s work I immediately added the book to my Libby queue. ![]() ![]() I read the previous novella in this series, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, and really enjoyed the world that P. ![]()
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