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Brought back to life as one of the city's "para-live" after being killed in an explosive confrontation, Detective Donal Riordan must confront the distrust of his former friends and colleagues and the city's growing hostility toward the undead as he investigates a conspiracy to ensorcel the entire population of Tristopolis. 35,000 first printing.
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In John Meaney’s follow-up to the much-acclaimed Bone Song, a cop in a morbidly lush necropolis crosses the barrier between life and death to avenge the murder of his lover—a woman whose heart now beats in his chest.… Tristopolitan police lieutenant Donal Riordan returned from the dead for one purpose: to stop the killer who took not only his life but his reason for living it. But first he must penetrate a secret cabal known as the Black Circle, whose stranglehold on the city’s elite is preparation for a magical coup d’état fueled by a sacrifice of unprecedented bloodshed. At the center of this ring of evil is the man responsible for his lover’s murder—a man Donal has already had to kill once before.
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