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A Death at the Dionysus Club (Lynes & Mathey Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Melissa Scott (Author), Amy Griswold (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Secrets, Magic and Murder…
The gentleman’s clubs of Scott and Griswold’s gaslamp fantastical London are full of secrets and the ones that Julian Lynes and Ned Mathey and their circles frequent are even more hidden than most. Beneath their respectable, or less respectable, façades, they are a haven…or a torment for men who desire each other’s company. Now someone is leaving a trail of murder victims, each one found without a heart. Each one somehow connected to Lynes, Mathey, their friends, their enemies and the communities that they belong to. Finding the murderer could reveal everything, leading to certain ruin for some, and the loss of all they hold dear for Julian and Ned. How far will they go to solve the mystery and stop a killer?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CK1916H7
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Queen of Swords Press (December 7, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3574 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 359 pages
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Amy Griswold writes fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, and gaslamp fantasy. Her novel Death by Silver won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award and the 2015 Gaylactic Spectrum Award. She is the author of six Stargate tie-in novels and co-author of the Stargate: Legacy novel series. Her interactive fiction games The Eagle's Heir and Stronghold are available from Choice of Games.

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Richard P. Jasper
5.0 out of 5 stars "As long as I'm discreet..."
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2023
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In an alternate turn of the 20th Century London, Ned Mathey and Julian Lines are recent Oxford graduates, one a metaphysician, the other a detective. The point of departure between their world and ours is metaphysics, a.k.a. systematized magic, upon which their modern world runs, with "hocus" powering spells that keep bowler hats dry and toast racks warm.. What isn't different: England's harsh laws against sodomy and buttery are in full force. Ned and Julian, friends from their days at a brutal public school, on again off again lovers since their Oxford days, must navigate the treacherous waters occasioned by being "other" in a society that disdains "otherness." Familiar waters, in other words, for many readers, even in what we really hope are -- for the moment, at least -- more civilized times and places.
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Ulysses Grant Dietz
4.0 out of 5 stars Subtle and carefully crafted, a rich and believable tale of magic and social mores.
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2014
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A Death at the Dionysus Club

By Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold

4.5 stars

Ned Mathey and Julian Lynes are old school chums. They also might be in love with each other. The emotional bass line of this beautifully crafted novel is how these two men, without any support from the society around them, negotiate creating a life together. What I love most about this book is the fact that this crucial theme is rarely the overt focus of the story. It is ever-present, but delicately interwoven into the complex action that pretends to be the main point. This is Holmes and Watson with a gay back-story where the backstory is, ultimately, more important.

Period novels always make me nervous. I’m too deeply immersed in the 19th century professionally (museum curator), and have read too much Victorian literature not to be aware of writing styles and anachronisms. I was well into “A Death at the Dionysus Club” when I realized that Mesdames Scott and Griswold had managed to write another novel that didn’t push any of these buttons to spoil my simple reading pleasure.

The second piece of tremendous bravado is the fact that the authors have created a believable, vivid late Victorian London in which magic—normalized into practical parlance by the term metaphysics—is as much a part of everyday life as, say, technology is today. Without making a big fuss about it, Scott and Griswold have created a false reality that rings true, even to dividing the magical into trained and amateur, and within the profession into theoretical (metaphysicists) and practicing (metaphysicians). It is all done so matter-of-factly that it barely distracts from the building of the narrative and the characters. (I can’t help but compare this with J.K. Rowling’s fevered depiction of the separate Muggle and Magical worlds in her much-loved Harry Potter books.)

This second in the Lynes/Mathey series is richer and deeper than the first. It delights less in the presence and appearance of magic (at least until the end, which is pretty hair-raising) and focuses on the lives of two gay men in Victorian London, as they work together and try to establish the boundaries of their relationship in the context of a virulently anti-homosexual world. The painful realities of living as sodomites (their word!) is more significant, ultimately, than the use and abuse of metaphysics by the citizens, high and low, of a great metropolis.

But it is magic, in the end, that casts a brilliant, painful spotlight on what Ned and Julian mean to each other, and the discreet, low-key way in which the authors make this clear touched me deeply. Because it felt right. It felt true.

This was a deeply satisfying book to read. I look forward to seeing where Scott and Griswold will take Ned and Julian next.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2024
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A very large improvement over the first book. This story is very interesting and engaging. There's a secondary storyline that is equally noteworthy and is absent of the majority of this kind of book. The characters are also better developed and more realistic.
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kathleen bradean
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing Second in Series
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2023
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I bought this while I was still reading the first in the series. I love the depth of this world. Everything is so smart and well thought out. Not just the mystery - but no mistake, it's a cracker of a mystery - but the rules of metaphysics and even the complications of relationships. I tore through this and loved every moment I was in this world. The writers should be very proud of this - and should write another.
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Deak Wooten
5.0 out of 5 stars A sequel as good as the first
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2023
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A sequel always risks coming off second best. Fortunately, Lynne’s & Mathey #2 is as good as, if not better than, the first. The world Scott and Griswold create becomes even more creative, and the growing (and believable) relationship between our protagonists deeper. Both books highly recommended.
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Katja B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the first book
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017
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I enjoyed this one even more than the first book. It doesn't have flashbacks anymore, but the mystery is better than in the first book, I think.

I generally don't like horror, but this one wasn't too intense, it merely made me feel some tension over whether the characters were going to make it rather than give me bad dreams.

I liked the development of the relationship a lot, too. Often jealousy is a theme that comes up in longer stories, and so it did this time too, but I was gratified when everyone involved had a mature grip on things.

Like the first book, this one doesn't give explicit details of the heated moments, which I personally feel was a shame, but perhaps others might appreciate it.
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Ronald G. McCutchan
5.0 out of 5 stars ... a fan of Melissa Scott since SHADOW MAN--and particularly loved her POINT novels with Lisa Barnett
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2015
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I have been a fan of Melissa Scott since SHADOW MAN--and particularly loved her POINT novels with Lisa Barnett. I am so glad to see that she's developed this new magical-Victorian setting with Amy Griswold (as well as returning to Astreiant!). Both this and the earlier novel are satisfyingly self-contained, yet lay the seeds for so much more storyline to come (particularly in regards to the engaging Miss Frost). I read read both Lynes and Mathey novels, FAIRS' POINT and Ben Aaronovitch's FOXGLOVE SUMMER in succession and realized that I seemed to have landed waist-deep in a new subgenre of wizarding police procedurals (add in Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper novels--and Jim Butcher is still on my to-be-read list). Though the description fairly screams gay novel (and DIONYSUS has a more centrally gay plotline than SILVER), I like that this is very much a novel of character. Lynes and Mathey are in a relationship, and it impinges on the plot, but the plot is not merely a convenience to a same-sex romp. (Not that I would expect that of Scott! I say that for the benefit of those who are not familiar with her work, and might be swayed by the attractive, yet somewhat misleadingly "small gay press" covers)
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