Gigi Pandian. Midnight Ink, $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4184-0
In this lighthearted supernatural mystery series launch, Zoe Faust heads to Portland, Ore., looking for a fresh start in a place where being different is okay—even if you’re not only a vegan and an herbalist but also 338 years old and a...
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Gigi Pandian. Henery (henerypress.com), $16 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-941962-27-5
In Pandian’s lively and humorous third Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery (after 2014’s Private Vishnu), a letter and plane ticket purportedly from former art thief Lane Peters sends San Francisco history professor Jaya to Paris. There, one of Lane’s...
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Gigi Pandian. Henery, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-63511-069-2
Pandian’s rollicking fourth Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mystery (after 2015’s Quicksand) takes the quick-witted historian from her home in San Francisco, along with her brother, Mahilan, and his brand-new girlfriend, Ava, to a romantic villa near the...
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Gigi Pandian. Midnight Ink, $14.99 ISBN 978-0-7387-4236-6
In Pandian’s imaginative third Accidental Alchemist mystery (after 2016’s The Masquerading Magician), 300-year-old alchemist Zoe Faust leaves her home in Portland, Ore., to search old haunts in Paris, in an effort to save her best friend, Dorian...
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Gigi Pandian. Henery, $6.99 e-book (288p) ASIN B073R141MQ
In Pandian’s highly entertaining, fast-paced fifth outing for spunky historian Jaya Jones (after 2016’s Michelangelo’s Ghost), Jaya flies from her native San Francisco to Kyoto, Japan, to lend moral support to Sanjay Rai, a longtime friend known...
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Gigi Pandian. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5301-0
Pandian’s fun fourth Accidental Alchemist mystery (after 2017’s The Elusive Elixir) finds 340-plus-year-old alchemist Zoe Faust trying to live a normal life in present-day Portland, Ore., when she stumbles across a Renaissance portrait that bears a...
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Gigi Pandian. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-80498-3
Pandian (the Accidental Alchemist mysteries) is in top form in this thoroughly enjoyable series launch starring 26-year-old Tempest Raj, a Las Vegas, Nev., magician, who returns home to California after a stage accident—engineered, she’s sure, by...
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Gigi Pandian. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-80501-0
In Pandian’s excellent sequel to 2022’s Under Lock & Skeleton Key, magician Tempest Raj, whose parents run Secret Staircase Construction, a company that builds houses with such accoutrements as secret passageways and sliding bookcases, witnesses a...
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Gigi Pandian. Minotaur, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-88020-8
Pandian triumphs again with her excellent third whodunit featuring magician-turned-sleuth Tempest Raj (after The Raven Thief), in which a baffling murder revives an unsolved Raj family mystery. After her career as a Las Vegas illusionist ended badly,
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