#56 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

This YA novel is set in an alternate England. Merlin works for the Left Handed Booksellers and meets Susan as he is trying to get information from a crime boss about his mother’s death several years before. Susan is new to London as she has arrived to go to college and also maybe find out about her absent father. Merlin introduces her to his sister Vivien, a Right Handed Bookseller and explains what the booksellers do. The left fights and the right are more cerebral while they try to keep everything about the magical world away from most people. With the few clues that Susan has about her dad and the attacks she has been under as soon she has arrived in London the booksellers get involved with her. The story zooms along as Merlin and Vivien are separated from Susan by an unknown force. Everything comes together in the end along with the mystery of Merlin and Susan’s mother’s death.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss.