#49 Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

I picked this up after hearing several people say it was really good and that they enjoyed the audio. This is a murder mystery set in a world where there is magical community that lives among us but doesn’t live out in the open. Ivy is hired to solve a murder that the magic authorities had ruled an accidental. Ivy’s estranged twin sister Tabitha works as an instructor at magic school where this happened. Magic started the wedge between the sisters, but the death of their mom really cemented the rent between them. This is Ivy’s first murder case and she doesn’t have any legal backing, so no one has to answer her questions. It makes things a bit slower for her to tease the info out of people that don’t want to share. She is also hiding the fact that she has no magic of her own and it does leave to some gaps in her knowledge but does allow the writer to educate the reader without it feeling like an info dump. I liked the book but had figured out the mystery much earlier than Ivy did so near the end it was a bit of waiting for her to put the clues together. I would read more in this setting if there ever is more but the book ends with good closure.