Looking for Critiques - Adult Secondary World Noir Fantasy (Mystery)
AB C
On a frozen moon where body heat is both life and currency, Master Investigator Eiri Alva arrives in the gritty frontier town of Nyby to solve a series of horrific murders. The victims are frozen solid, their internal heat (rakrana) spilled, wasted.
To catch the killer, Eiri sets aside the grief of loss to identify a conspiracy that spans politics, profit and piety. To do so, he must rely on an arrogant trade master he despises and an unknown outcast from a forgotten species native to the continent. Together, they navigate a web of clues to identify the culprits and the underlying plot supporting them to halt the escalating violence.
Written for those who enjoy a deep, detailed world fleshed out in all its gritty glory, SIMALA’S HIDE layers unique cultures, biology, corruption, mystery, moral ambiguity, political intrigue, prejudice, and fanaticism. Think of the forensic, biological world-building of Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Tainted Cup colliding with the gritty, non-human noir of Dan Stout’s Titanshade, sprinkled with a tiny bit of the political intrigue of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire.
