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The Book of Lamps and Banners
The Book of Lamps and Banners | Elizabeth Hand
7 posts | 4 read | 6 to read
Acclaimed crime writer Elizabeth Hand returns to her cult-favorite series: Photographer Cass Neary is hard-up for cash and in more danger than she realizes, in the hunt for an ancient, legendary book. Cass Neary needs cash to get home to New York, and she's already sold her camera-like losing a limb, for a photographer of her experience. Her best chance is to get in on the deal that Griffin, an old flame, is about cut with a notoriously particular bookseller for a gorgeous, ancient illuminated manuscript: The Book of Lamps and Banners. This Book is more than just a beautiful object-its text and images are said to have a powerful magic capable of life-changing effects on anyone who reads it. But before the sale can be completed, an intruder brazenly steals the Book out from under the dealer's nose. Cass and Griff are the only suspects. To clear their names, and keep the missing text out of dangerous hands, Cass plunges into a curious underworld at the intersection of antiquarian books, cutting-edge software, and modern nationalist politics. This breathless psychological thriller, featuring one of the greatest amateur sleuths of the past decade, could only come from the mind of Elizabeth Hand.
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Gina
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This was an interesting fast past thriller. I liked how the protagonist was a sketchy character from begining to end. The character development needed a little pumping up but overall definitely going to add this title to my personal library.

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Gina
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Snag'n some me time before my weekend shift!

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Gina
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OHMEGOSH, I am so in love with this naughty chick♡♡♡ I will forsure be finding the first in this series to do so{~•°•°♡♡♡°•°~}

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Gina
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~!•WoW•!~ I never thought about it like that...hmmmmm~

Reviewsbylola That really strikes my morbid heart strings. 🖤 3y
Gina @Reviewsbylola Well said my dear! Bravo!! I must admit I too have some of those similar heart strings... 3y
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Gina
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Ok, then... you have my attention! hehehehe

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ReadingEnvy
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This is the fourth Cass Neary novel by Liz Hand, and it pulls in some of the characters and situations from the first three, answering some questions left open from before. It also circles a priceless book possibly made for Alexander the Great by Aristotle, and rescued from the Library of Alexandria. Somehow the author squeezed in our pandemic situation and white supremacists too. ⤵️

ReadingEnvy Yes it is also somewhat strange that the book I reviewed two books ago also had a connection to Alexander the Great. These kinds of coincidences happen to me all the time!)

Cass, as always, is exhibiting self-destructive behavior. And she's left her camera behind....
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