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Their competence and agency help offset the ways that the world of this series is casual about violence toward women. Her character is an excellent addition to the world of the series, and more women in the prelacy are also present. The Grief of Stones has women as focal points - in addition to these women-focused investigations, Othala Celehar is presented with a surprise apprentice, in the form of an adult woman who has only recently discovered her ability to witness for the dead. As part of that investigation, the Witness gets drawn into another, figuring out a situation at a boarding house for foundling girls with a possibly disreputable mistress. Slow-paced until a sudden action scene, the build has great pay off and I am extremely invested in what’s next for these characters.Įarly in the novel, Othala Celehar, Witness for the Dead, is entreated to investigate a cold case: an aristocratic woman who died suddenly three months ago, whose husband now suspects she was murdered. It follows The Witness for the Dead, presenting the Witness again solving murder mysteries and engaging in more derring-do than he, personally, wishes for. The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison is her latest mystery in the world of The Goblin Emperor.
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