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Originally Posted by pdurrant
And now, the ebook-only Music and Murder by David Carrico. I've already got through most of the music stories, and they come together as a novel very well.
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The impact of the collected stories in one volume is much greater than as shorts spread through the Grantville Gazettes. No doubt a little tidying has gone on too.
The major part of the book consists of the music stories, essentially the back story of the main musical characters in
1636: The Devil's Opera. And it's very effective and moving in parts.
The remainder covers the two main police characters in
1636: The Devil's Opera, from first meeting to the end of their third major case (a locked room mystery).
I think it was $5 well spent, even though I have all the Grantville Gazette volumes. If you've only been reading the main Grantville novels and not the Gazette, I strongly recommend buying and reading this book before reading 1636: The Devil's Opera, although it's not essential.
Now onto my very latest purchase, yesterday's Amazon UK Daily Deal:
Wicked by Gregory Maguire. I've seen the musical that was based on this book, so I'm looking forward to the book very much (but not enough to have paid full price!).