Conspiracies and Rooks

Marion is now a Student Guard. Tony and Sorcha settle into the town house and make friends. Why does the shopkeeper not want the Guards to catch the thieves?
This is the second of six ‘Marion and the Rooks books’ and the eighth book involving the Celtic Otherworld of Magh Meall.
The cover is based on the portrait of May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton.
About 88,800 words.