The Shadow Minister

by Laurence Raphael Brothers

Overview

Lutèce is the ideal city of magic and romance. But behind a shadowy veil, an ancient menace lurks ...

Lutèce is a bright city of idylls and romance where no one goes hungry and everyone can wield magic, everyone, that is, except for young Commissaire Jules Janvier of the Police Judiciaire whose talent for sorcery is disabled. A temporary assignment to Art Crimes looks like easy work, but after a midnight encounter with the phantom thief called Le Chat Azur, things turn begin to turn strange.

Janvier discovers a secret world of horror and dark sorcery lurking behind the bright facade of his beloved city, and an evil mastermind who he thought was just a myth turns out to be all too real. Soon Janvier is forced to confront the awful reality of his world ... the Shadow Minister.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781967547050
Publisher:	Water Dragon Publishing
Publication date:	05/07/2025
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Laurence Raphael Brothers is a writer and a technologist with five patents and a background in AI and Internet R&D. He has published over 40 short stories in such magazines as Nature, PodCastle, and Galaxy's Edge. His noir urban fantasy novellas The Demons of Wall Street, The Demons of the Square Mile, and The Demons of Chiyoda are available from Mirror World Publishing.