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Publisher: Aspect (Warner Books)
Release Date: November 2002
ISBN: 0-446-60983-8
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Format Reviewed: Paperback
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Genre: Fantasy
Reviewer: Jo Rogers
Reviewer Notes: Explicit Violence

Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses
By Diane Duane  


     On the planet Earth, one of the seven known Earths in the seven known universes, Lee Enfield lives in Los Angeles and works as a freelance forensic lanthanomancer. She has the Sight and is bound to serve Justice. Here, Justice isn’t an idea, but a living being. The Truth is always known and acted upon.

     Lee and her partner, Gelert reh’Mechren, have no sooner finished one high profile case than the DA’s office hands them another. An Elf, Omren dil’Sorden, has been murdered. He was gunned down with a shotgun. Lee and Gelert go to the scene to go over the area with Sight and Scent. Gelert, an Offworlder who resembles a large wolfhound, is an expert in using the Scent. They See the murder being committed and Gelert follows the killer to where he disappeared from a bus. But, in the process he finds the murder weapon which leads them to the killer.

     However, another Elf was at the scene, looking around the corner as dil’Sorden was gunned down. Who was he and how did he vanish into thin air? Lee Saw him turn and pull the air aside like a curtain and disappear. This was a physical impossibility, unless one was going through a gate ring and there is no gate ring at the corner of Eighteenth and Wilshire.

     How did he vanish? And who wanted dil’Sorden dead? All those answers seem to be on Alfheim, home world of the Elves. But would the Alfen people help her find the answers before she died at the hands of dil’Sorden’s killers?

     Stealing the Elf-King Roses is a very different fantasy, laced with science fiction technology. There are many more intrigues besides this one murder. This is one story every fantasy enthusiast is sure to enjoy. I only hope to see more tales of Lee Enfield and the Elf-King.

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