The Osiris Ritual

A steampunk mystery adventure featuring immortality, artifacts, and intrepid sleuths Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes

Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life will be a little quieter after his dual successes solving The Affinity Bridge affair. But he hasn’t banked on his villainous predecessor, Knox, who is hell-bent on achieving immortality, not to mention a secret agent who isn’t quite what he seems....

So continues an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the second in the series of Newbury Hobbes investigations.

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From Publishers WeeklyA steampunk mystery that includes Ottoman automatons, ancient Egyptian artifacts, a malevolent stage magician, and a quest for immortality should prove entertaining, but unfortunately, The Osiris Ritual falls short of its promise. Set in the usual Victorian London, the story feels clichéd and mechanical. The main character is a third-rate Sherlock Holmes and Regency hero mash-up, and nothing particularly new or interesting happens. A romantic subplot is evoked but left unresolved, and the author uses the excuse of a series to avoid tying up loose ends or construct a narrative arc that delivers on the promised story. (Aug.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review“Mann’s imagination has clearly run wild in this quirky and well realized version of the world, and this is no bad thing. [The Affinity Bridge is] fun, it’s exciting, and Mann has a very agreeable hand that’s easy to appreciate. He has a sharp talent for writing and a surplus of enthusiasm for the genre.”—SciFiNow

“Tremendous fun.... Mann writes great chase scenes! [The Affinity Bridge] marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise.”—SFRevu

“Hugely entertaining.”—SFSignal

“An enormous pile of awesome”—Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award finalist