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April 2021: Other Books
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Dead Djinn in Cairo & The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djeli Clark - 4 stars each
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A Dead Djinn in Cairo
Egypt, in 1912. Fatma el-Sha’arawi, a special investigator with the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities, is investigating a dead doing which leads in a mere 45 pages to saving the world. It is all a little abrupt, and a little thin, but Clark still manages to create an intriguing world and characters.
Fatma herself is superb, one of the youngest agents and few females at the Ministry. She dresses with style, to claim attention, wearing beautifully British men suits complete with bowler, wingtips, cane and a gold pocket watch. ...her father always said if people were going to stare, you should give them a show.
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
The superintendent assigns Agent Hamad and his new recruit partner Agent Onsi to the odd case of a haunted tram car, which is a major mode of transportation around modern Cairo. Expecting to find a troublesome ghost or maybe a djinn, instead Hamad and Onsi confront an evil they have never seen before and must draw on all their individual skilks to defeat. In the background, a vote on women's suffrage is taking place, and a related large gathering of women in Ramses Station plays a key role in the denouement.
Short, tightly but deftly written with humor and thrills, storng women and women's issues, this was just a delight.
The author has a full length novel set in this world coming out in May, 2021.
Note: I read these in reverse order, Haunting first. That ended up working out perfectly because Fatma only appeared at the very end of the story where she started telling Hamad the story from Dead Djinn.
Look at the stunning cover art!