{"product_id":"zig-zag-girl-book-elly-griffiths-9780544811874","title":"The Zig Zag Girl","description":"The chilling debut mystery in the Brighton Mysteries series from Edgar Allen Poe Award-winner Elly Griffiths--author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries--about a band of magicians who served together in World War II tracking a killer who's performing their deadly tricks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Captivating.\"--Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An absorbing read, the debut of another great series.\"--San Jose Mercury News\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A labyrinthine plot, a splendid reveal, and superb evocation of the wafer-thin veneer of glamour at the bottom end of showbusiness . . . Thoroughly enjoyable.\" --Guardian\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three sections, and Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick--the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, served with Edgar in a special ops group called the Magic Men that used stage illusions to confound the enemy. Max still performs, touring with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers, and dancing girls.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Edgar asks for his help with the case, Max tells him to identify the victim, for it takes a special sidekick to do the Zig Zag Girl. Those words haunt Max when he learns the victim was a favorite former assistant of his own. And when Edgar receives a letter warning of another \"trick\" on the way, he realizes that it is the Magic Men themselves who are in the killer's sights.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Enormously engaging . . . Griffiths's plot is satisfyingly serpentine.\"--Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Readers will finish looking forward to the next trick up [Griffiths's] sleeve.\"--Mystery Scene","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49573188960529,"sku":"GOR008902110","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49874396381457,"sku":"CIN0544811879VG","price":4.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889979531537,"sku":"CIN0544811879G","price":4.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297384304913,"sku":"CIN0544811879LN","price":4.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983859486993,"sku":"NIN9780544811874","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0544811879.jpg?v=1751167281","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/zig-zag-girl-book-elly-griffiths-9780544811874","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}