Sinta, Sorceress-Detective

Sinta, Sorceress-Detective
Author: Sedigitus Swift
Publisher: Archelaus
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1961852047

A magical murder mystery, complete with medieval mayhem! Poison in the prince’s pork tenderloin claims the life of his hapless taster. A dagger to the heart slays the sleeping court sorcerer, tasked to investigate. With courtiers seemingly falling like ninepins, the prince’s chancellor turns to Mistress Sinta, a gifted freelance sorceress, to assume the role of detective. With the aid of Sir Othir, her dashing man-at-arms, Sinta plunges into the murk of the princely court, where—while enjoying some tasty meals—she soon finds that spells alone will not uncover the answers she seeks. Can our inquisitive young heroine crack the case before herself falling victim to the killer?

Sorceress for Hire

Sorceress for Hire
Author: Sedigitus Swift
Publisher: Archelaus
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1961852020

Freelance Sorcery at Reasonable Rates! Launching a magical career can be a challenge, even for a talented sorceress like Sinta, who—despite a naturally timid disposition—finds herself faced with spoiled rich clients, rampaging robbers, marauding pirates, and savage trolls (well, only the one, though it does have two heads). Alas, in the course of her adventures, Sinta unwitt­ingly makes a dangerous enemy, a high-born magician with the power and cunning to disgrace and destroy her. How will this humble apothecary’s daughter escape his nefarious trap and bring the schemer to justice? Sorceress for Hire is Book Two in the diverting fantasy series Tales from Ondiran, but it is a free-standing novella. Reading Book One first will add depth but is in no way necessary!

The Eye of Ksera

The Eye of Ksera
Author: Sedigitus Swift
Publisher: Archelaus
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1961852004

It's hard to hide from a sorceress—as Colmar, a reluctant soldier of fortune, discovers after crossing the distinctly dangerous Valdira over a powerful magical artifact, the Eye of Ksera. To add to his troubles, a sinister necromancer, a grasping abbess, and an undead sorceress-queen all have this tantalizing treasure in their sights, as well! Indeed, the Eye is an ill-fated gem that has cost the lives of many who have sought to possess it over the centuries. Who will survive this briskly paced adventure in a quirky world with two moons and five different systems of magic? Who will emerge from it with the Eye? And, nearly as important, who will end up with custody of Angvar, the necromancer's crested green lizard?

The Corpse in the Trash Room

The Corpse in the Trash Room
Author: Colette Tajemna
Publisher: Archelaus
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1961852063

In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ... Startled but not exactly sorrowful at finding their unpopular dorm preceptor slumped atop a garbage can in the trash room, Keith and his friends can’t resist investigating, and set to questioning a quirky set of potential witnesses and suspects. Could the killer be a fellow student? A member of the faculty or staff? The provost? Might it even be one of their friends? Keith and his pals must navigate college politics, unruly druggies, and lesbian separatists in order to uncover the truth.

A Sorceress Reconstructed

A Sorceress Reconstructed
Author: Daniel Scott Tuffley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2018-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781726713092

A New York construction worker, named Eric, stumbles into a portal to another world; in which a medieval kingdom is under the tyrannical rule of an evil sorcerer. Eric's only hope of returning home lies with the sorcerer's former apprentice, and the kingdom's previous queen, Zara. Thus, Eric and Zara must work together to acquire ingredients to make potions that will restore Zara's powers. Only then, can she hope to defeat her old master, save the kingdom, and send Eric home.

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain
Author: Elena del Río Parra
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004392394

Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the “star killer”, the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged “economy of death” displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries.

A Slaying in the Village

A Slaying in the Village
Author: Jordan Silver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-04-26
Genre:
ISBN:

Just as Detective Starks starts to settle down after solving her second murder case in the small town she calls home, another mystery unravels. It starts with an explosive text message to a teenage girl that lands the high school coach in hot water. But just as the town is focused on this latest piece of gossip, a murder is committed at the country inn.

A River of Stories

A River of Stories
Author:
Publisher: Third Millennium Information
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Children's poetry, Commonwealth (English)
ISBN: 9780956929907

A collection of stories and poems with the central theme of water, from each of the 54 countries of the Commonwealth. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.

Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor

Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor
Author: Feng Jiong
Publisher: WWW.WEBNOVEL.COM (Cloudary Holdings Limited)
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2019-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Download Webnovel to read latest Mesmerizing Ghost Doctor! She, a modern hidden ghost leader of an organization which gathered insane prodigies proficient in the various differing skill-sets. Highly skilled in medicine and poison, executes covert assassinations, viewed as insane and demonic in the eyes of people of the world. Killed in an accident, and reborn into the body of a disfigured young girl. What? Face disfigured, identity stolen? A return to the family dim and hopeless? Her identity can be given up, her family can be forgone, but as for the one who harmed her predecessor who inhabited this same body, if she didn’t at least make them scream in unimaginable agony and throw them into a state of wretchedness, how could she live up to her demonic reputation? Endless turmoil ensues and it’s a battle to dominate over all! See how she shook the world dressed in a suit of red, her sword up against the dominant powers that rocked the Heavens! Her name spread across the seas, shocking the earth!