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Mysterius

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This is one of those weird hyperkinetic books that keeps moving with plots and counterplots pushing the action forward and mysteries involving evil grandmothers, children's books that double as gateways to hell and a psychotic wizard who is using the Burning Man gathering as a gambit for immortality.

Of course, the main character is usually what sells these stories and the Sherlock Holmes/Dr Watson angle works well with a reporter from a alternative weekly finding the eccentric title character at a seance. Before she can get back to her publisher, he's ruined that job for her and hired her as his assistant. Drunk, incorrigible and doling out information in small doses, Mysterius is one of the craziest takes on the Sherlock Holmes characters in years. And his Moriarty is truly worthy of that title.

It's not the deepest book in the world and you forget most of it after you've finished but it's a great read nonetheless.