Tredje delen i Sekelskiftesmorden Fyra kvinnor för alltid sammansvurna av en mörk hemlighet i sekelskiftets Stockholm. I ett snöbeklätt Stockholm i december 1897, pulsar Fredrika mot sin nyöppnade detektivbyrå på Södermalm. Edit har lämnat ett tungt år bakom sig, och fått en nystart som retuschös i en fotoateljé. Hela staden förbereder sig inför den stundande julen. Men Lucianatten är kall och hård trots alla tända ljus. När en ung kvinna från Dalarna, inrest till huvudstaden för att arbeta, försvinner spårlöst blir det en kamp mot klockan för att finna henne. Fredrika och de andra kvinnorna på Krukmakargatan anar att det ligger mer bakom försvinnandet än detektivkonstaplarna tror. Sökandet efter den försvunna dalkullan leder dem till mörka hemligheter, brustna löften och ond bråd död. Lucia är död är en ögonöppnande skildring av livet i Stockholm på tröskeln till det nya seklet, där moderna vindar krockar med gamla sägner och landsbygdens skrock. I en tid då kvinnor söker frihet i en ännu konservativ och begränsande värld, skildrar Katarina Wennstam fenomenalt en framväx

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power. Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance? A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. (Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)

Tredje delen i Sekelskiftesmorden Fyra kvinnor för alltid sammansvurna av en mörk hemlighet i sekelskiftets Stockholm. I ett snöbeklätt Stockholm i december 1897, pulsar Fredrika mot sin nyöppnade detektivbyrå på Södermalm. Edit har lämnat ett tungt år bakom sig, och fått en nystart som retuschös i en fotoateljé. Hela staden förbereder sig inför den stundande julen. Men Lucianatten är kall och hård trots alla tända ljus. När en ung kvinna från Dalarna, inrest till huvudstaden för att arbeta, försvinner spårlöst blir det en kamp mot klockan för att finna henne. Fredrika och de andra kvinnorna på Krukmakargatan anar att det ligger mer bakom försvinnandet än detektivkonstaplarna tror. Sökandet efter den försvunna dalkullan leder dem till mörka hemligheter, brustna löften och ond bråd död. Lucia är död är en ögonöppnande skildring av livet i Stockholm på tröskeln till det nya seklet, där moderna vindar krockar med gamla sägner och landsbygdens skrock. I en tid då kvinnor söker frihet i en ännu konservativ och begränsande värld, skildrar Katarina Wennstam fenomenalt en framväx

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power. Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance? A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist. (Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree spontaneously erupted from his body. Even in this canton at the borders of the Empire, where contagions abound and the blood of the Leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death at once terrifying and impossible. Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears--quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home. Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective. As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect. Featuring an unforgettable Holmes-and-Watson style pairing, a gloriously labyrinthine plot, and a haunting and wholly original fantasy world, The Tainted Cup brilliantly reinvents the classic mystery tale.

From BookTok sensation and NYT bestselling author Rachel Gillig, comes the next big romantasy phenomenon: a gothic, mist-cloaked tale of a prophetess who is forced beyond the safety of her cloister on an impossible quest to defeat the gods with the one knight whose future is beyond her sight. Sybil Delling has spent nine years dreaming of having no dreams at all. Like the other foundling girls who traded a decade of service for a home in the great cathedral, Sybil is a Diviner. In her dreams she receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and lords and common folk alike travel across the kingdom of Traum's windswept moors to learn their futures by her dreams. Just as she and her sister Diviners near the end of their service, a mysterious knight arrives at the cathedral. Rude, heretical, and devilishly handsome, the knight Rodrick has no respect for Sybil's visions. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek his help in finding them. For the world outside the cathedral's cloister is wrought with peril. Only the gods have the answers she is seeking, and as much as she'd rather avoid Rodrick's dark eyes and sharp tongue, only a heretic can defeat a god.