Island of Time

by Davis Bunn

Overview

A mind-bending time heist novel that will appeal to fans of V.E. Schwab's 'Shades of Magic' series.

"There was no murder . . . Because they never existed."

The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it.

But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash.

Jackson's enigmatic new partner Luca Tami, a blind Talent able to perform magic, suspects powerful supernatural forces are at play. The family weren't killed . . . they've been erased from time. With all traces of the family disappearing, the case is hours away from being forgotten.

How can Jackson solve a crime no one remembers happening? He must find a way to remember. He must discover who is behind the spell and why. Dangerous magics are in use, and it's clear those controlling them won't let anyone stand in their way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781448308446
Publisher:	Severn House
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.87(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Davis Bunn is a bestselling author with more than eight million books in print. Davis was first published in 1990 and has gone on to have a prolific career with the release of over seventy books across twenty languages. He was born in North Carolina but now lives in Oxfordshire, England, and serves as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. He has won the Christy Award four times and is a member of their Hall of Fame. In 2011 he won the Library Journal Best Book of the Year for Lion of Babylon. Davis also publishes under the pseudonym of Thomas Locke.

Editorial Reviews

'A wild ride’  – Kirkus Reviews

‘A fast-paced, retro-feeling sci-fi mystery . . . good fun'  – Publishers Weekly on Prime Directive

From the Publisher

2022-01-26
An anti-magic cop in an anti-magic country gets sucked into a plot pitting established magicians against insurgent magicians.

Called to the scene of a fatal fire, recently widowed Interpol agent Jackson Burnett finds every indication that Bernard Bouchon, the wealthy head of a timepiece manufacturing firm, and his wife, who runs her own interior design company, have perished along with their two children. But the forensic evidence soon vanishes more or less before the variably observant eyes of Jackson and Luca Tami, the blind Talent who’s been seconded from Brussels to help him. Luca, who can see a lot of things Jackson’s eyes miss, tells him that their records of the deaths will disappear soon, along with their memories of the incident. Interpol’s remit has changed quite a bit since the 21st century—it’s now “tasked with policing magic and Talents, those gifted in the arcane arts”—so Jackson’s an obvious candidate to investigate the case. Not so his friend Simeon Baehr, a straight-arrow detective from Geneva’s serious crimes division. So Jackson asks his boss if he and Luca can be joined by Inspector Krys Duprey, an Egyptian Canadian Ethiopian Interpol prodigy who turns out to be another Talent herself, and they go up against the forces intent on taking down the seven Institutes of Magic. Switzerland has outlawed magic for 700 years, but such bans have merely driven the Institutes underground, not put them out of business, and veteran Bunn supplies scene after scene of otherworldly combat and conscientiously expository dialogue. Alert readers will quickly sort out the hierarchy that puts Acolytes below Talents, then Adepts, then Directors; others will be dragged along in bemusement.

A wild ride clogged by a surfeit of explanations on the fly.

Kirkus Reviews

Davis Bunn applies his deft hand to The Domino Effect with the grace and mastery

Jerry B. Jenkins

A fast-paced read that balances action and cozy undertones . . . accessible read that will appeal to readers who enjoy mystery and suspense

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