The Bone Magician (Tales From The Sinister City)

by F E Higgins

With his father, a fugitive, falsely accused of multiple murders and the real serial killer stalking the wretched streets of Urbs Umida, Pin Carpue, a young undertaker's assistant, investigates and soon discovers that all of the victims may have attended the performance of a stage magician who claims to be able to raise corpses and make the dead speak.

• ISBN10: 0312368453
• ISBN13: 9780312368456
• Publish Date: 2 September 2008 (first published 7 March 2008)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 29 May 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Feiwel & Friends
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 272
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

A Paraquel to The Black Book of Secrets (i.e. the story is set at the same time, parallel to the first book, so not a sequel but a complimentary story set in the same world) this is the story of Pin Carpue, whose father ran away accused of killing his uncle and whose mother is dead. He works as an apprentice mortician. There's a killer in town and no-one knows who or why. Pin's father is held as a possible candidate for this murderer.

It's not a bad read but to me it lacked a certain something. I suppose I was hoping for more magic in the story. It was a good read and I don't regret reading and I do look forward to more by this author but I wasn't as impressed with this one as by the first.