Kirjahaku

Ned Cooper had made plenty of enemies with his loud vocal attacks on every religion that wasn't his, but it didn't seem to Halvar that was enough to justify a knife in the back. Nevertheless, there he is--dead as one of his own barrels. Then Guardsman Zoltan meets a similar fate, and with even more suspects given his protection racket on the docks and his constant harassment of the women in the souk.Are these murders personal, or might they be connected to the muskets the captain of the Belle Fleur was smuggling into Manatas? Was Master Albrecht making gunpowder for those guns? Will Halvar still have a job after his contract expires on New Year's Day?The intrepid Dane is once again knee-deep in corpses and on the wrong end of pointed weapons. Can he solve all the mysteries before his term of office ends? And what will he do, stuck in Nova Mundum, if someone doesn't renew his contract?

Pola Drach, Independent Eye in a city founded by refugees from a dying Earth, is hired to find a student's missing notebook. The problem is, the notebook was lost while the young man was engaged in activities deeply frowned on by his community.Pola tracks the notebook to the abode of the young "joyboy" her client was engaged with, only to find him dead and the notebook missing. Then her client himself is murdered, and it's clear someone very badly wants Pola not to continue looking for the missing notebook. Badly enough to try to kill her as well.What looks like a simple task becomes more and more complicated, and Pola must work with two other Independent Eyes to reveal financial skullduggery, blackmail, and forbidden passion that leads to murder.

Nothing is what it seems in the City of Lorr...Just ask Pola Drach, Independent Eye. In a city founded by refugees from a dying earth long ago, she pursues dark secrets and exposes the shadowy underbelly of society. Who killed the ambitious model? And was that who she really was? Who's forcing shopkeepers to buy worthless stock, and circulating funny money? Why is the youngest scion of one of the city's richest families suddenly a target?Most important for Pola--Who wants her dead?

Winterfest is no holiday for Independent Eye Pola Drach.It started simply enough-a missing young woman. Granted, there's no love lost between Pola and Captain Sara Atterson, but that's irrelevant. A job is a job. This one takes her deep into the world of artists and the theater, which is a different experience from digging in the closets of the wealthy. She's not impressed.Audra Martino was an innocent, drawn to causes to "save things", as one fellow apprentice said. What happened to her after she left the gallery where her work was exhibited for the first time? And what happened to her sketchbook?There are secrets in the dark, and before Pola is done she'll go deep into more than one.