![]() Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers, including STING (2016), FRICTION (2015), MEAN STREAK (2014), DEADLINE(2013), & LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL (2011).īrown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Friday, February 25th, 2022 at 12:20 pm and is filed under Book Reviews. Tags: Book Recommendations, Book Reviews, Book Suggestions ![]() Highly recommended for those who like fantasy, and if you like mysteries as well you’re in for a treat. Plus there’s a lot of dialect for daily items like food and so forth, which also slowed me down. I had trouble even mentally pronouncing them and eventually my eye started to slide past, which obviously then gave me difficulty distinguishing between characters. All the names are multi-syllabic with a lot of Cs, Vs, Zs, and Hs. I sure wish I’d remembered the glossary in my copy of the previous book. My only complaint is the one I had about the previous novel – the language. The mystery of who killed the elvish woman is excellent as well – we get to watch Celehar slowly and painstakingly track down clues, question those who knew her, and build up a picture of who she was and why she was killed. Why that is will slowly and quietly come to light, in fact if you read too fast you might miss it. Celahar himself is very interesting – dedicated, honest, and compassionate but also astonishingly self-effacing and lonely. Great details, right down to the stray cats. ![]() Slightly steampunky – there are airships, but don’t seem to be any other motorized vehicles. This is a wonderfully rich imagined world with excellent characters and great imagery. Along the way he’ll get into the midst of a family quarrel about a forged will, have to subdue a powerful ghoul, find a serial wife murderer, comfort the dying after an airship explosion, and undergo an ordeal. Now it’s his job to investigate who she was and what happened to her. But all he can tell from her last memories is that she was murdered. Celahar is called to see if he can find out who she is, so she can be decently buried with the appropriate rituals. He’s content here.Īn elvish woman has been found, presumably drowned, with no identification. And so, he’s run afoul of higher-ups in several different areas and has been sent away from the emperor’s court to the city of Amalo. He doesn’t lie for political expediency and he will find a way to (softly) speak truth to power. He’s not the most self-confident goblin in the world due to a mistake in his past, but if he’s given his word to help he will do so, and he never gives up. Thera Celahar is a Witness, but he’s had some setbacks. This is a society of goblins and elves, who intermix and intermarry although some prejudice does occur. Witness for the Dead is a job description, a religious calling, and those who answer it have the ability to sense a recently dead person’s last thoughts and experiences. But no matter, if you haven’t read it, you’ll catch up fast. The main character here is a minor one in that book. ![]() You don’t need to have read that first, although it does explain the society and introduces the concept of the Witness for the Dead. THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD is a fantasy mystery, set in the world Addison created for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR. ![]() The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison Review by Cyndi J. ![]()
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