The Shamer's Daughter
core novel 2000 The Shamer Chronicles
Record
| Original title | Skammerens datter |
|---|---|
| First published | 2000 |
| Original language |  DA |
| First English translation | 2004 |
| Translator | Lene Kaaberbol (self-translated with English-language collaborators) |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (10,911 ratings, collected 2026-08-20) |
| Page count | 240 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780805081114 |
Synopsis
The Shamer's Daughter, published in 2000, opens in the kingdom of Dunark, where the King, his pregnant wife, and their young daughter have been murdered, and the King's elder son, Nicodemus, is found at the scene, holding a dagger and too drunk to account for himself. Because a confession is required to convict him, the Master of Law summons Melussina, a Shamer whose stare can draw out the shame hidden in anyone's mind, to examine him; when her findings prove ambiguous, the scheming Lord Drakan has her young daughter Dina, who has inherited the same unwanted gift, brought to Dunark Castle as well.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Shamer Chronicles
- Series: The Shamer Chronicles core; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Lene Kaaberbol
Notes
- On the translation: English translations published by Henry Holt (US) / Hot Key Books (UK).
- From the series record (The Shamer Chronicles): Danish young-adult fantasy quartet, published in Denmark as Skammerens datter (2000), Skammertegnet (2001), Slangens gave (2001), and Skammerkrigen (2003); translated into English as The Shamer's Daughter, The Shamer's Signet, The Serpent Gift, and The Shamer's War (Henry Holt, US, and Hot Key Books/Bloomsbury, UK).
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.
- Publication order, within the series The Shamer Chronicles: position 1 of 4: next The Shamer's Signet (2001)
Sources
- Rating-platform series listing: The Shamer Chronicles
- Bookseller series listing: The Shamer Chronicles
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shamer's_Daughter
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shamer%27s_Daughter
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