The brilliant detective Ana Dolabra may have finally met her match in the gripping sequel to The Tainted Cup - from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy - Robert Jackson Bennett. In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire's reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air-abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, ... |
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In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead-killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire's borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death both terrifying and impossible. Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home. At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, ... |
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Преди броени десетилетия град Воортяштан е бил твърдина на Божеството, олицетворявало войната и смъртта, и средище на страшните пазители, поробили и унищожили милиони хора. Богинята е мъртва. Градът тъне в разруха. А според войниците на новата световна сила, покорила тези земи, тук има само примитивни племена, затънали в кървави междуособици и готови всеки миг за бунт срещу окупаторите. Бълващата сквернословия Тюрин Малагеш, подозирана във военни престъпления, е изпратена в тази неприветлива пустош да дослужва, за да се наслаждава на генералската си пенсия. Такова е прикритието ѝ. Малагеш е дошла да издирва ... |