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core novel 2010 Elemental Assassin
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.16 (23,314 ratings, collected 2026-11-06) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781439155455 |
| Internal chronology | 3 |
Synopsis
Gin Blanco runs a barbecue restaurant in Ashland and is secretly the retired assassin known as the Spider. A Stone and Ice elemental, she hides both her magic and her identity while she works toward one goal: hunting down Mab Monroe, the powerful Fire elemental who murdered her family. The pressure mounts when a giant attacks her, and she must deal with her vampire friend Owen Grayson and with Detective Bria Coolidge, the baby sister Gin once believed was dead. Bria does not know who Gin really is, and the secrets between them make every confrontation with Mab's forces more dangerous for both sisters as Gin closes in on her enemy.
Where it sits
- Universe: Elemental Assassin
- Series: Elemental Assassin core; position 3 of 19 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Jennifer Estep
Notes
- From the series record (Elemental Assassin): Nineteen novels following the assassin Gin Blanco in the city of Ashland.
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 Elemental Assassin: position 3 of 19: previous Web of Lies (2010) · next Tangled Threads (2011)
Sources
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