Thieves’ Quarry by
D.B. Jackson, follow-up to Thieftaker, is available from Tor ($25.99).
“Ethan Kaille isn’t
the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a
thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good
citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a
perilous one, the simmering political tensions between loyalists like himself
and rabble-rousing revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and others of his ilk are
perhaps even more dangerous to his health.
When one hundred
sailors of King George III's Royal Navy are mysteriously killed on a ship in
Boston Harbor, Ethan is thrust into dire peril. For he — and not Boston’s
premier thieftaker, Sephira Pryce — is asked to find the truth behind their
deaths. City Sheriff Edmund Greenleaf suspects conjuring was used in the dastardly
crime, and even Pryce knows that Ethan is better equipped to contend with
matters of what most of Boston considers dark arts. But even Ethan is daunted
by magic powerful enough to fell so many in a single stroke.
When he starts to
investigate, he realizes that the mass murderer will stop at nothing to evade
capture. And making his task more difficult is the British fleet's occupation
of the city after the colonials' violent protests after the seizure of John
Hancock's ship. Kaille will need all his own magic, street smarts, and a bit of
luck to keep this Boston massacre from giving the hotheads of Colonial Boston
an excuse for inciting a riot — or worse.”
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