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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 |
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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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