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Murder at the Kinnen Hotel

expanded novella 2014 The Powder Mage

Record

First published2014
Original language EN
Work typenovella
Canon statusexpanded
First-edition ISBN9780996232326

Synopsis

Taking place twenty-two years before the events of Promise of Blood, this novella follows Adamat, later a renowned investigator in the Powder Mage trilogy, in his early days as a special detective constable in the city of Adopest. Gifted with a supernatural, perfect memory, Adamat is transferred to the First Precinct and assigned what looks at first like a straightforward case: the murder of a businessman's mistress. As he digs into the killing, the investigation pulls him into a far more dangerous web of political intrigue and hidden conspiracy than he expected, forcing him to rely on his intellect and unusual gift to protect himself and the people around him from powerful enemies who would rather the truth stayed buried.

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Notes

  • Collected in In the Field Marshal's Shadow (2015).

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

Sources

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