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Title | Barnabas Tew and The Case Of The Missing Scarab
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Author | Columbkill Noonan
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Title | Barnabas Tew and The Case of The Nine Worlds
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Title | Barnabas Tew and The Case of The Cursed Serpent
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Title | Barnabas Tew and the Case of the Enlightened Cow
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Title | Barnabas Tew and The Case of The Hellenic Abduction
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Author | Columbkill Noonan
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Publisher | darkstroke books - 2020
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Category | Humour
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Warnings | None
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Main Elements | Gods
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 Barnabas Tew and The Case of The Hellenic Abduction
Demanding Greek gods. A world of intrigue. A mysterious helper.
Zeus is used to getting what he wants…but that was before he met Barnabas Tew!
Barnabas and Wilfred, the unluckiest detectives ever, are enjoying their time in India, working on mastering their emotions and learning how to do all sorts of interesting yoga poses. They feel as if they’ve finally found some peace in their lives.
Everything changes, though, when Zeus whisks them away from their idyllic retreat and demands that they solve a case for him.
Having no choice, they reluctantly accept the job, but quickly come to realize that nothing is as it should be. Zeus’ motives are suspect from the beginning, the rest of the Greek gods and goddesses are untrustworthy at best, and Barnabas soon finds his temper hasn’t improved at all during his time in India.
Who is the mysterious lady who keeps popping up just when they need her? Is she friend, or is she foe?
Will Barnabas and Wilfred figure out what’s right and what’s wrong in this topsy-turvy world of lies, intrigue, and trickery? Or will the Greek gods and goddesses prove too much for them?
Maybe jumping first into the fifth book of the series wasn't the best, it just happened to have been free on Kindle when I was looking for a fantasy mixed with another genre (mystery), but the author did a good job of filling in the gaps for a newbie reader so even when referencing events that were clearly from other books, I wasn't left confused. Well not entirely, I was wondering how an 18th-19th century detective was running around ancient Greece (and why everyone spoke English) but the reasoning did get explained by the end, and was almost certainly explained in the first book, so no fault of the author.
On the whole, I found it a little silly, a bit like a British version of the Pink Panther's Clouseau, and I'm not a huge fan of humour where the main character keeps getting into messes mainly because he's a bit of an idiot. His obsession with pomegranates got a bit annoying. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the take on mythology, lets just say the author doesn't sugar coat the gods. See, the detectives get hired (*cough* more drafted, doubt they had a choice) by Zeus to find an abducted girl...a girl who was abducted by her brother to protect her from Zeus' roving eye. It was a bit of a connundrum, do you ethically do the job your client hired you to do, even though it is clear the girl wants nothing to do with Zeus so you'd be handing her over to her rapist, or do you do the other ethical thing and not find her for him? And what about the two other goddesses that seem to be helping them out, what are their hidden agendas? In a most roundabout way (see they had no money so to get information they had to do tasks) they run into the Labyrinth, the Graeae (for which they needed to retrieve a cyclops eye for ick), Scylla and Charybdis, among others, so it was a fun tour around some of the main monsters.
I wouldn't mind reading the others, but I'll be honest, only if I find them for free. As I said, I found it fun but I didn't love it, but I would like the mouse thing explained!
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