Review: Magical thriller
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
"The Necromancer's Gambit" by Nicolas Wilson is a surprisingly solid thriller with a utopic, fantasy / magical twist. Most of the characters have names taken from Chess figures and that is just one of the many witty and clever aspects of this story that follows a magic detective investigating mutilated bodies on behalf of an odd new government, called the Gambit.With its many references to other works the book is a firework of post modern allusions.The book is quirky, ironic, funny, entertaining and written with great prose which makes this an easy and very pleasant read. Connoisseurs of the detective, fantasy and humour genres should all have a field day with this original piece of work.