Whisper in the Wind
Book Four in the Fetch Phillips Archives: a fantasy set in a world where the magic has disappeared...
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Beschreibung des Verlags
The world has lost its magic - literally - and Fetch is done being a hero.
Once a detective, all he wants now is to run his café in peace. Sunder City is still recovering from the sudden and violent end of magic, and if one man can't solve all its problems, he can at least stop some people going hungry. But when a kid on the run shelters in Fetch's café, and a chain of gruesome murders begins among Sunder's high and mighty, trouble is brought to Fetch's door.
There's a word whispered on the wind, and that word is revolution...
A brand new fantasy adventure from Luke Arnold; a private detective solves cases in a fantasy world where magic has disappeared.
Praise for this series:
'An effortlessly readable series that could be the illegitimate love child of Terry Pratchett and Dashiell Hammett' Kirkus
'Sure to have readers coming back for more' Publishers Weekly
'A marvellous noir voice; Luke Arnold has captured the spirit of the genre perfectly' Peter McLean
'Sunder City [is] an evocative creation, it has echoes of Ankh-Morpork, but also a broken melancholy all of its own' SFX
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Arnold continues to set the standard for urban fantasy in this stellar fourth mystery featuring PI Fetch Phillips (after One Foot in the Fade). Seven years after the cataclysmic event known as the Coda cut off the mystical creatures of Sunder City from access to magic, Fetch hopes to leave behind his work as an investigator. But a confluence of events, possibly linked, curtail his retirement. First, Corrupt Constable Bath is murdered and his colleague, Detective Simms, asks Fetch for help. Fetch passes on the case, only to be extorted into another inquiry; Isaac Derringer, the Sasquatch publisher of the Sunder Star, threatens to expose Fetch's role in enabling the Coda, unless Fetch tracks down "Mister Whisper," whose incendiary pamphlet promises to disclose hidden truths concealed by the city's leaders. As the bodies and the intrigue ramp up, Arnold's scrupulous worldbuilding impresses, with pedestrian details about, for example, the city's water department making it easy to suspend disbelief. With a twisty plot, appealing lead, and Chandleresque atmospherics, this keeps the series going strong.
