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A Drop of Corruption

Shadow of the Leviathan (Book 2)

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An impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air - abducted from his quarters in a building whose entrances and exits are all sealed.

The brilliant and mercurial investigator, Ana Dolabra, and her assistant Dinios Kol have been called in to crack the case.

Before long, Ana discovers that they're actually investigating a murder. Worse, the adversary seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and can predict every one of Ana's moves as though they can see the future.

Ana's solved impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and the investigators seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, has Ana finally met an enemy she can't defeat?

Critics Review

PRAISE FOR ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
A riveting murder mystery wrapped in a twisty conspiracy, set in a vivid fantasy world terrorized by eldritch monsters . . . If you love unique, genre-bending, boundary-pushing fantasy as much as I do, look no further than Robert Jackson Bennett
Fonda Lee, World Fantasy Award–winning author of the Green Bone Saga
I loved this. A twisty detective story, a weird fantasy, a thrilling adventure - The Tainted Cup is a masterstroke. I want Bennett to write a dozen of these, and send them to me yesterday
Max Gladstone, New York Times bestselling co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War
Part Sherlock Holmes murder mystery, part Through the Looking-Glass, The Tainted Cup is one of the wildest, most original stories I've ever had the privilege to explore
Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The War Arts Saga
Original, imaginative, and suspenseful, The Tainted Cup superbly blends mystery and fantasy in this vivid, complex novel. I couldn't put it down. Give me more of this world and these characters ASAP!
Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the UNSUB series
**PRAISE FOR A DROP OF CORRUPTION**
Bennett's wonderfully clever and compulsively readable sequel to 2024's The Tainted Cup offers another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection. . . . Bennett skillfully integrates humor and magic into the complex puzzle plot and plays fair with planting clues for the reader. Randall Garrett fans will be hooked
Publishers Weekly
A thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish
The New York Times Book Review
Superb . . . [Bennett] writes the kind of fun, propulsive work that kept my teenage self scouring the shelves for the next installment
Locs
A wicked clever immensely fun sequel that ups the ante further on a remarkably fun and imaginative series. A Drop of Corruption is already shaping up to be an early forerunner for book of the year (like its predecessor). I couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift than this book and this is my Pick for the Month
Fantasy Hive
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett seamlessly fuses together fantasy and sci-fi, politics and mysticism, nature and technology, new life and horrifying deaths. It is another incredible tale that is set to satisfy on every level
The Fantasy Hive
A Drop of Corruption did not disappoint, building on the foundation of book one with an even sharper and more compelling murder mystery that opened the world in intriguing new ways
Gizmodo
Din is a charming narrator, and their banter propels the reader through a truly baffling mystery to satisfying conclusion
Gizmodo
Just as good as the first... If deep and complex fantasy worlds are your thing, this is where to go
The Standard
Fuses together fantasy and sci-fi, politics and mysticism, nature and technology, new life and horrifying deaths
Fantasy Hive
Wicked, imaginative, chaotic, unputdownable, and a lot of fun
Fantasy Hive

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
Author Robert Jackson Bennett
Narrator Andrew Fallaize
Series Shadow of the Leviathan, The Tainted Cup
Duration 15 hours and 51 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399725439
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Dark fantasy, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy
Availability AU, GB, IE
Rating
5.0 (3 reviews)
Narration
5.0 (3 reviews)

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