The Great Deceiver
by Elly Griffiths (£22, HB, Quercus)
The seventh in the gripping post-war, Brighton-set mystery series, and we are back with magician Max Mephisto, divorced and living in London. When he hears from past fellow performer Ted English, whose assistant has been found dead in her boarding house, Max gets in touch with his old friend Superintendent Edgar Stephens. What he doesn’t know is that