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"The same butcher" by Jens Schumacher, and Jens Lossau

Irina has left me generously loaned this book, so I could read it in a private reading circle.

What is it (quoted from Amazon)?
Streets Nophelets, the capital of the Kingdom of Sdoom, in rapid succession, the bodies are found in five same youths. As is well known that the victims by means of magic of their total blood were deprived of unrest broke out among the population. A case for the IAIT, the Institute for Applied investigative Thaumaturgy, dedicated to the education of magical crimes prescribed. His best Employees, and the Troll Master Hippolit Jorge to be sent out to come to the same mysterious butcher on the track. The discoveries they make it a surprise, but even the two experienced investigators ... The original Ermittlerduo of all worlds: Clever & Smart go Fantasy.

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I admit I was rather confused by the title. When I read the short facts and is a troll as an investigator and "Clever & Smart" perceived, and then I thought: Okay, am I now curious.

And so experienced with the murder of a boy on the street as a pleasure working with the same young man, and pursued the investigation of the Trolls and the Master Jorge Hippolit. With them, I examined thaumaturgic corpses Sternhöh attended a party - only because of the investigation, of course - and took up the pursuit of the same butcher.

But right mood came at me or not was not very long. Yes, Master Hippolit history and the resulting consequences for him called a compassionate smile on my face and I found Jorge, unusual people. But his Tick the Troll proverbs I was slightly annoyed after the third use. The characteristics of the investigators duo they made gave them to them in a figurative sense, however, color, I can not argue;)

The authors themselves have struggled given the methods of investigation - to transfer into the world of Master Hippolit and Jorge - thaumaturgic incl forensic medicine. Even that was okay, I also read without a second thought. What the one is good because it is for me as part of this story appeared in years. But on the other hand, it is also bad because I did not even thought, "Oh ..., well designed" or "interesting", etc. It 'did' not me, it was not atmospheric, but a little weird, sometimes disgusting.

really exciting, I found the detective story is not - but this is not strictly necessary for this type of "crime". I remember the Amelia Peabody stories whose cases so crazy were opaque and that no one could solve. But the Amelia Peabody novels - at least the first of this series, about to Ramses 'age' was - I was in contrast to the same butcher entertaining and very funny.

humor is notoriously subjective, and where I schmunzle easy to laugh at others go whole-heartedly. in the novel should be parodied the genre, I do not not have noticed - probably because too little in the way I read fantasy genre. I can not exclude that this may be the reason why I regard this novel as a whole and on average okay and that I will have its contents probably soon forget.