Nightwatch on the Hinterlands (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780756415334)

Set in the universe of Rory Thorne, this new sci-fi mystery follows an unlikely duo who must discover the motive behind an unusual murder.

THE TEMPLAR: When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it.

THE SPY: Officially, Gaer is an ambassador from the vakari. Unofficially, he's also a spy, sending information back to his government, unfiltered by diplomatic channels. Unlike Iari, Gaer isn't so sure the riev's behavior is just a malfunction, since the riev were created using an unstable mixture of alchemy and arithmancy.

As Gaer and Iari search for the truth, they discover that the murderous riev is just a weapon in the hands of a wielder with wider ambitions than homicide--including releasing horrors not seen since the war, that make a rampaging riev seem insignificant...

Author: K. Eason
ISBN-10: 0756415330
ISBN-13: 9780756415334
Publisher: Daw Books
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2021
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.87w x 1.35d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/16/2021
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001