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A detective with an extraordinary sense of taste investigates a murder in a walled city besieged by monsters.
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The Alloy of Law
Three hundred years after the Mistborn trilogy, a lawman back from the frontier and his irreverent sidekick take on a gang hijacking trains in a city of railways and electric light.
City of Stairs
Shara Komayd, a spy posing as a junior diplomat from Saypur, the nation that conquered its old masters by killing their gods, arrives in the occupied city of Bulikov to investigate the murder of a Saypuri historian.
Foundryside
A thief in a city of magical industry discovers that the technology everyone depends on has a terrifying sentient origin.
The Caves of Steel
On a future Earth where people live in vast enclosed cities and robots are resented, New York detective Elijah Baley is made to partner with a humanoid robot, R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve the murder of a Spacer scientist.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
Rivers of London
Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.
The Black Prism
A former emperor imprisoned for sixteen years is freed into a world at war, where his forbidden colour magic is the only hope.
Warbreaker
A warrior princess and an immortal scholar clash and ally in a standalone fantasy about colour-based magic and political intrigue.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
A Dark and Drowning Tide
Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist who dreams of being a naturalist, joins six eccentric nobles on a royal expedition to find a mythical spring, and when her mentor is murdered aboard their ship she takes charge of the hunt for the killer alongside her longtime rival, Sylvia von Wolff.
Myst: The Book of Atrus
Raised by his grandmother in a desert fissure, young Atrus is claimed by his father Gehn, who takes him underground to the ruined city of D'ni to learn the art of writing books that open onto other worlds.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.