#37 The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

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The sequel to The Witness for the Dead is just a good as that one.  Short version is if you liked book one then book two is just as wonderful.  In this book a grieving Marquis petitions for the death of his wife to be investigated even though it was 3 months prior, and everyone says it was a natural death.    In looking at everyone that might have had a grudge against her, he goes to a founding school and is passed a note from a student begging for help. At the same time this is going on he gains an apprentice, a widow who had the gift come to her later in life and has had no religious training or much use of her gift.  What is happening at the school becomes a much larger mystery when the girl who passed the note is found to be murdered that night, but Celehar can’t see who did it with his gift.

 

There is the usual religious intrigue that seems to be part of his life but the murders get solved and the other crimes that come to light during the course of the book are also stopped.  These are great mysteries set in a fantasy world and I hope there will be so many more to read in this setting.  The audio of this is wonderful and has the same narrator as before.

 

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss