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The Mortal Word (Invisible Library Series #5)
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In the latest novel in Genevieve Cogman's historical fantasy series, the fate of worlds lies in the balance. When a dragon is murdered at a peace conference, time-travelling Librarian spy Irene must solve the case to keep the balance between order, chaos...and the Library.
When Irene returns to London after a relatively straightforward book theft in Germany, Bradamant informs her that there is a top secret dragon-Fae peace conference in progress that the Library is mediating, and that the se...
When Irene returns to London after a relatively straightforward book theft in Germany, Bradamant informs her that there is a top secret dragon-Fae peace conference in progress that the Library is mediating, and that the se...
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An Interdimensional Murder Mystery with Librarians: Genevieve Cogman’s The Mortal Word
“And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.” —”A Scandal in Bohemia,” Arthur Conan Doyle After all, Cogman’s time-and-dimension-hopping librarian lives in a “vaguely Victorian England with a tendency towards steam power, zeppelins, libertines, and Great Detectives.” A murder has occurred […]
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