#7 Crowbones by Anne Bishop

 

The latest in the Others series is again set at the Jumble during Trickster Night with a full complement of guests.  Someone decides to dress up as Crowbones, a Crowguard boogeyman and scare the Crowguard during Trickster Night.  The scare does happen but then so do some deaths.  The Elders ae upset by this fraud and block the town from the rest of the area and kill the fake. They also want the humans in the area to solve the problem of who set it all up.  Vicki is at the Jumble with several guests who not all what they said they were when they checked in, the town has had a rash of people coming in that are also not who they say they are, and the local Sanguinati are also hosting several fosterlings and something about them isn’t quite right either. Now they need to find the truth quickly before the Elders take to killing everyone human and Terra Indigene alike.

 

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