Die Janus-Affäre (Books & Braun #2)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783802586446 (3802586441)
Publish date: December 13th 2012
Publisher: Egmont Lyx
Pages no: 450
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (#2)
This is the second novel in the entertaining Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences steampunk series featuring former Field Agent turned Junior Archivist Eliza Braun and her partner, Archivist Wellington Books.The suffragist movement is experiencing a bit of a shock as many prominent women in the movement...
Lena disappears before Eliza on the train in a flash of lightning, but just before doing so asks Eliza for help. Eliza wants and requests the case, but being a Junior Archivist (not on field work) and compromised with knowing the victim, is not given the case. Agent Bruce Campbell is given the cas...
This is the second book within this series, with Phoenix Rising as the first. This is a delightful steampunk as was the first book. Those that have complained that some books in this genre not having enough interesting devices won't have to worry about this series. It has some fantastical and unusua...
A classic steampunk novel, THE JANUS AFFAIR faithfully combines the aesthetic and social mores of Victorian England with advanced technologies in their cumbersome, nascent form. Books and Braun continue their partnership, and from page one both mystery and mayhem rule the narrative. My love for thes...
The authors either need better editors or they need vocabulary lessons. "Shear" is not the same as "sheer", "any" is not the same as "many" and "bobble" is definitely not the same as "bauble."And oh, my dog, "a grizzly discovery" means you just found a bear. If you just found a body, that's more o...
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