2023/024: Love-in-a-Mist — Victoria Goddard

2023/024: Love-in-a-Mist — Victoria Goddard

Mr Dart smiled guilelessly at them. "Do I surprise you? You know, I trust, that there is no need to fear magic any longer."
"It -- it is hardly in fashion," Madam Veitch managed, in a shaky voice.
"It will be," Mr Dart replied...[loc. 365]

Following their improbable escape from Orio Prison -- the best practical exercise in literary criticism I've encountered in fiction -- Jemis, Mr Dart and Hal find themselves guests in a remote manor house, snowed in and without transportation. Naturally, a murder mystery ensues: but this is fantasy, so there is also an unexpected unicorn, a possibly-invisible butler, some peculiarly inappropriate dishes at dinner, a couple more friends from university (there is always another Morrowlea graduate), the mysterious Ironwood heiress, a complete run of the New Salon (with its potentially libellous articles about Jemis Greenwing, his father, et cetera), and the sudden arrival of the Hunter in Green, whose identity is at last revealed.

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