Quietus

Death lingers in silence.

A brutal fantasy take on the detective procedural — with a magical serial killer and entire crime scenes left in absolute, impossible quiet. For readers of gritty gaslamp fantasy, found-family partner dynamics, and industrialized magic.

Damvan runs on arcanum and lies. When corpses start turning up with the air around them unnaturally muted — no screams, no footsteps, no last words — the city wants it buried fast. Zoe Wright, a brilliant but untested investigator newly assigned to the Arcanum Crimes Unit (ACU), refuses to walk away. This is her first real case, and when she realizes it’s tied to her own past, she sinks her teeth in and won’t let go. Her only support is Xavier Hunt: an arcanum-enhanced enforcer with a reputation for doing damage, and the one detective in the ACU nobody wants to cross. As Zoe and Xavier follow the trail of bodies, they find more than a killer. Evidence disappears. Witnesses are silenced. Powerful names in Damvan are ready to burn anyone — cops included — to protect what’s really hidden in the dark.

 Murder. Magic. Corruption.

“Welcome to Damvan.”

Perfect for readers of Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup, the gritty industrial magic of Brandon Sanderson’s later Mistborn books, and lovers of the Netflix series Arcane. This is a fast-paced fantasy crime novel about two broken cops who refuse to quit.