Synopses & Reviews
In the enchanted city of Turai, the royal family is corrupt, the politicians can be bought, and the civic guards have better things to do than guarding. Thraxas may look unprepossessing, being overweight and not quite overbrained, and more interested in pursuit of his next glass of beer than pursuit of justice, but if you¹re in trouble in Turai this portly private eye is probably your only hope. Turai is no stranger to death in all its forms-except that now a new silent and insidious variety of death has entered the city, and no one knows who will die next. It's obviously magical, but the sorcerers haven't a clue. Thraxas hasn't a clue, either, but he has an even more pressing shortage of funds, and if stopping the unseen, unknown silent killer is what it takes to fatten up his wallet, he'll take the job. But will he solve the mystery, or join the dance himself. . . ?
About the Author
Martin Scott is the pseudonym under which Martin Millar writes his humorous fantasy adventures about Thraxas the sybaritic overweight private eye and man of action in a fantasy world of elves, Orcs, and mean streets. There are six Thraxas novels in print, with a seventh soon to be published, and
The Guardian has praised the series as "blindingly funny, deeply subversive," while
SFX calls Thraxas "a pulp fiction hero par excellence." Martin Millar, under his own name, has written several mainstream novels, such as,
The Good Fairies of New York,
Love and Peace with Melody Paradise, and his newest novel,
Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me, which
The Guardian called "brilliant" and the London
Times praised as one of the few "great rock novels." Millar has been compared to Kurt Vonnegut and Armistead Maupin, and
The Edinburgh Times calls him "one of Britain's most gifted underground writers." Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, he lives in London, England in a flat filled with videos of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer.