Alison Cowan
So apparently neither of the authors, their assistants, or their editors bothered to re-read the previous books in the series before getting into this one. There are a /lot/ of plot inconsistencies in the intro chapters, so many that I'm not sure I want to spend my money on it. The most glaring is the most needless; the first book begins with Griffin applying for a job with his uncle, immediately after graduating college. A couple of days later, he moves to New Orleans. The last book ends a day or two after Mardi Gras - Griffin's first Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Many, many, many times the fact that this is/was his first Mardi Gras is underlined and/or stated outright throughout the book. This book begins by saying Griffin has been more than a year in New Orleans - and repeats that "fact" several times in the sample chapters. Absolutely unnecessary inconsistency. And hardly the only one. It's possible that the others are necessary for the plot, so I won't try to describe them, and it's likely that the book is entertaining - Asprin & Nye are both consistent about that. But it's irritating, to say the least.