Talus and the Frozen King by Graham Edwards (April 2014)
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Overview: Meet Talus – the world’s first detective.
A dead warrior king frozen in winter ice. Six grieving sons, each with his own reason to kill. Two weary travellers caught up in a web of suspicion and deceit.
In a distant time long before our own, wandering bard Talus and his companion Bran journey to the island realm of Creyak, where the king has been murdered. From clues scattered among the island’s mysterious barrows and stone circles, they begin their search for his killer. But do the answers lie in this world or the next?
Nobody is above suspicion, from the king’s heir to the tribal shaman, from the servant woman steeped in herb-lore to the visiting warlord whose unexpected arrival throws the whole tribe into confusion. And when death strikes again, Talus and Bran realise nothing is what it seems. Creyak is place of secrets and spirits, mystery and myth. It will take a clever man indeed to unravel the truth. The kind of man this ancient world has not seen before.
Genre: Fiction, Speculative Fiction
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Requirements: ePUB Reader | 825 Kb
Overview: Meet Talus – the world’s first detective.
A dead warrior king frozen in winter ice. Six grieving sons, each with his own reason to kill. Two weary travellers caught up in a web of suspicion and deceit.
In a distant time long before our own, wandering bard Talus and his companion Bran journey to the island realm of Creyak, where the king has been murdered. From clues scattered among the island’s mysterious barrows and stone circles, they begin their search for his killer. But do the answers lie in this world or the next?
Nobody is above suspicion, from the king’s heir to the tribal shaman, from the servant woman steeped in herb-lore to the visiting warlord whose unexpected arrival throws the whole tribe into confusion. And when death strikes again, Talus and Bran realise nothing is what it seems. Creyak is place of secrets and spirits, mystery and myth. It will take a clever man indeed to unravel the truth. The kind of man this ancient world has not seen before.
Genre: Fiction, Speculative Fiction
"A+ Great fun, well worth it. Extremely well done and very enjoyable. Putting Sherlock Holmes and Watson into the Stone Age worked for me!" ~British Fantasy Society
"A close cousin to the writings of Conan Doyle, Christie, and Marsh. Mystery fans will look forward to Talus's future investigations." ~Publisher's Weekly
"It all makes for a pretty fast, intense mystery as shadows thicken, nothing is as it seems and men start to die all around. Combined with an ending I didn't expect from a mystery novel that stokes the fires of my inner geek, is it a wonder I only have good things to say about this book? Highly recommended, and definitely on the shortlist for best books I've read this year." ~Drunken Dragon Reviews
"I think what Edwards has tried to do is ambitious. How do you create a Holmesian character in a world where philosophy, science and logic are still in their infancy? How do you create the world's first detective without it feeling like it's Holmes and Watson in bear fur? I think the answer lies in exceptional world and character building." ~Bookonaut
"Interesting 'mash-up' of wildly distinct genres; in essence, historical crime fantasy. A fascinating and exciting novel." ~ephemeral
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