Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind tries to cash in on stolen fairy technology, but he is outwitted and must once again rely on the LEPrecon fairy police to help him out of a jam and save the life of his bodyguard Butler.

Once again spending time driving around with my 13-year-old son, so let him chose the book we listened to whilst doing said driving. With this book I had hopes of seeing Artemis do something criminally mastermindy, but no luck: after trying to broker a (only slightly) shady deal, it's more of the usual shenanigans. With all of the talk, you would think he would try to overthrow a country or destroy the mafia or some such.

In 1965 Seattle, a Jewish woman, recently widowed, translates a Yiddish diary from a Russian immigrant girl who may have been murdered at the turn of the century.

The plot is mildly interesting, but the actual story is not well written nor very descriptive: major characters come in and out (eventually disappearing), places are mentioned in such a way as to make no sense to non-natives, and the conclusion comes from out of no where by huge coincidences. Might have been better as a longer book, but I might not have made my way through it. The only thing that kept me going was I have a mild interest in early Seattle history, which this did not really cover.

I am now reading the Son of Neptune. The second book in the Lost Hero series by Rick Riordan