The Better Mousetrap

It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together.

Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until, that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of falling out of trees and getting killed. Repeatedly.

It's not long before Frank and Jane find themselves face to face with the greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When it's a mousetrap.

“Tom Holt's comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader's book collection-- Waterstone'?s Books Quarterly”

Inventively entertaining ...make you both laugh out loud and stop and think - SFX

Tom Holt's comic fantasy is a great, uplifting read, fit to grace any reader's book collection - Waterstone's Books Quarterly

Highly amusing ... Eloquently snarky prose - Publishers Weekly

Holt's quirky characters and whimsical voice successfully infuse life into this entertaining romantic comedy - Publishers Weekly

Tom Holt is the author of more than twenty comic fantasy novels and a number of acclaimed historical novels.

It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together.Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until, that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of falling out of trees and getting killed. Repeatedly.It's not long before Frank and Jane find themselves face to face with the greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When it's a mousetrap.

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