At nine years old, I’d walked among the stones and got my first taste of the things Sutcliff wrote about: the Seal people, the priests of the Horned Moon god, the mysteries behind the goat-skin door that we never got to see in her world of Roman senators and straight roads and the honour of the Eagle. I’d read Rosemary Sutcliff’s Eagle of the Ninth as a child, around the time my Dad took my brother and I to visit the Brochs at Glenelg in Scotland. I had a career as a thriller writer, but the Boudica books were sitting there, in the back of my mind, waiting to be written. Email was on dial up, and we waited until midnight to dial in because the lines were engaged during the day. There were no electronic versions then, no Facebook, no Twitter. June 2015 marked fifteen years since Dreaming the Eagle was first published.
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Locke’s wit and audacity endear him to victims and bystanders alike.” - The Seattle Times “A true genre bender, at home on almost any kind of fiction shelf. If you have read it, you should probably read it again.” -Patrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind “A unique fantasy milieu peopled by absorbing, colorful characters. Martin “Right now, in the full flush of a second reading, I think The Lies of Locke Lamora is probably in my top ten favorite books ever. Praise for The Lies of Locke Lamora “Fresh, original, and engrossing. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game-or die trying. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. Scott Lynch’s first novel, The Lies of Locke Lamora, exports the suspense and wit of a cleverly constructed crime caper into an exotic realm of fantasy, and the result is engagingly entertaining.”- The Times (London) An orphan’s life is harsh-and often short-in the mysterious island city of Camorr. If Viola is a scapegoat, then who really did it? And what are they hiding? To find the truth, Gretchen must enter a void that is not only dark and cold-blooded, but also frighteningly familiar. But Gretchen might be seeing something in Viola no one else does: herself. Amid stories of childhood horrors and Viola’s cruel manipulations, the bad seed has already been found guilty by a rapt public. Remorseless teenager Viola Kent is accused of killing her mother. When a high-profile new case lands on Shaughnessy’s desk, it seems open and shut. This novel is written by brianna labuskes. 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