It's always wonderful when a book you loved has a sequel that lives up to the original! That's the case with Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption (#1,325) in his follow up to The Tainted Cup. I think at its heart it's an intricate mystery wrapped in a science fiction/fantasy cover. Mr. Bennett's world-building is amazing, but it's really his unique characters who really pull the reader into the action.
In this book, Iudex Investigator Dinios Kol is assigned to the case of an Imperial Treasury Agent's disappearance in Yarrow, a land outside the Empire's sole control, yet vital to imperial functioning. Working with an Apoth warden assigned permanently to the territory, layer after layer of mystery is unpeeled. The nearer they approach, the more monstrous the consequences appear for themselves, for Yarrow and for the Empire itself.
I really hated to come to the end of both of these books, I was so wrapped up in the stories. My consolation is that I know that there will be at least one more book in this series (if not more!). I can't wait to find out what happens next!
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