A Drop of Corruption : An Ana and Din Mystery (Trade Paperback)
by Robert Jackson Bennett

The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup, named an Edgar Award finalist and one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review and NPR.

“Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett—[a] rising star of fantasy—more than delivers.” —The Washington Post, on The Tainted Cup

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside. 

To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.

Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder—and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.