THE TAINTED CUP by award-winning author Robert
Jackson Bennett (Foundryside) is a LibraryReads selection for February. It is a very entertaining mix of mystery and
fantasy. A military guest of a wealthy family has been killed and an eccentric
investigator, Ana, and her new assistant, Din, seek to solve the murder and the
puzzle of how it is connected to the threat on the territorial defenses after an
alarming breach, for “it took every bit of cunning and planning to survive what
came from the seas to the east each wet season.” There is a sense of Holmes-Watson
interplay here since Ana seems capable of truly intuitive analysis while Din,
engineered to have a prodigious memory, is still learning and developing
confidence. The world building is immersive and impressive, too. It will be fun
to see more in this series. THE TAINTED CUP received starred
reviews from Booklist, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly
(“Readers will be wowed.”).
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