{"id":15273,"date":"2021-04-15T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15273"},"modified":"2021-04-15T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:38:49","slug":"limelight-by-dan-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15273","title":{"rendered":"‘Limelight,’ by Dan Willis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Book Number 5<\/strong> in Dan Willis\u2019s \u201cArcane\u201d series about runewright\/private eye Alex Lockerby is Limelight<\/a><\/em>. This book takes the series to a new thematic level, and I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex has come up in the world from his humble roots. He\u2019s getting better-paying cases these days, and hobnobbing with the very powerful, among them the Lightning Lord, the sorcerer who provides electrical power to this magic-dominated 1930s New York City. Another is Sorsha Kincaid, the Ice Queen, who provides its refrigeration and air conditioning. She and Alex are carrying on a wary flirtation, but in Limelight<\/em> they don\u2019t have much time for anything but crime solving and disaster aversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, a famous woman mystery writer has been murdered, to the grief of Alex\u2019s mentor, Izzy. Izzy asks him to investigate the case, and it soon becomes clear that someone wanted to stop her writing a novel based on the unsolved murder of a Broadway actress several years back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the police are more concerned with a more spectacular crime, one involving magic. A bank\u2019s wall has been breached by an explosion that appears to have been set off by a rune \u2013 only everyone knows that there are no exploding runes. Alex sees evidence here of a level of runecraft he has never seen before \u2013 oddly initiated by runes that are themselves quite crudely drawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limelight<\/em> was not crudely drawn. It was tightly plotted, complex, and highly dramatic. It was fun to read, and I look forward to the next installment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book Number 5 in Dan Willis\u2019s \u201cArcane\u201d series about runewright\/private eye Alex Lockerby is Limelight. This book takes the series to a new thematic level, and I enjoyed it. Alex has come up in the world from his humble roots. He\u2019s getting better-paying cases these days, and hobnobbing with the very powerful, among them the … Continue reading ‘Limelight,’ by Dan Willis<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[3659,3658,3681],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-alex-lockerby","tag-dan-willis","tag-limelight"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}