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Loading... Maddie Hatter and the Deadly Diamondby Jayne Barnard
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Lots of fun in this short novella length book, with a non stop cast of characters many from the game of Clue and a "famous Belgian Detective"?? The second book of the series is due out at the end of the month so I hope to learn more about Maddie then. ( ) In this light-hearted adventure, Maddie Hatter (just one of her names...) follows the trail of a missing explorer and his priceless finds through a quirky steampunk world. The worldbuilding was distinctive but fairly light, which I enjoyed. Personally, I don't like getting bogged down by "rules of the world" to the extent I can't follow the story. We have a multi-part mystery with a fair cast of suspects. The reader is quite explicitly led through Maddie's deductive process with various points explained, so there's little risk of getting lost in the plot. I'd say this is a low-tension story. When Maddie's stuck regarding where to go next, various parties show up to help her. Additionally, although she has ongoing concerns about being "outed" in her real identity, she doesn't experience any serious consequences to pay off her anxiety. Both these aspects felt a bit convenient, with not much sense of payoff. Overall, a quick, gentle read with some interesting steampunk aspects. no reviews | add a review
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Miss Maddie Hatter, renegade daughter of a powerful Steamlord, is scraping a precarious living as a fashion reporter when the story of a lifetime falls into her lace-gloved hands. Baron Bodmin, an adventurer with more failed quests than fingernails, has vanished in circumstances that are odd even for him. While he is supposedly hunting the fabled Eye of Africa diamond in the Nubian desert, his expeditionary airship is found adrift off the coast of England. Maddie was the last reporter to see the potty peer alive. If she can locate the baron or the Eye of Africa, her career will be made. Outraged investors and false friends complicate her quest, and a fiendish figure lurks in the shadows, ready to snatch the prize . . . at any price. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyRatingAverage:
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