Sacrificial Magic
core novel 2012 Downside Ghosts
Record
| First published | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.21 (6,779 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780345527509 |
| Internal chronology | 4 |
Synopsis
Chess Putnam is a witch who must use her powers to solve a grisly dark-magic murder for a crime boss who is also her drug dealer. Her side job as a ghost hunter for the Church of Real Truth leads her to a haunting at a school in Downside, where someone is learning to summon the dead. The book's tagline is Reading, Writing, and Raising the Dead. It is the fourth novel in Stacia Kane's Downside Ghosts urban fantasy series, published by Del Rey as a mass market paperback of about 416 pages in April 2012, with the usual mix of occult investigation and personal danger that marks the series.
Where it sits
- Universe: Downside Ghosts
- Series: Downside Ghosts core; position 4 of 5 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Stacia Kane
Notes
- Del Rey paperback, March 2012
- From the series record (Downside Ghosts): Chess Putnam, a witch and ghost debunker, takes dangerous jobs in a Church-ruled world where the dead rose.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series Downside Ghosts: position 4 of 5: previous City of Ghosts (2010) · next Chasing Magic (2012)
Sources
← Downside Ghosts dossier · All universes
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