LILITH SAINTCROW
Bannon and Clare
In an industrial world where technology and arcane forces blur together, a hardened investigator and a reluctant partner are drawn into violent conspiracies and supernatural crimes that force them to rely on each other in a dangerous city full of corruption.
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✅ You’ll Love This If You Crave:
- a powerful heroine
- a magical alternate history
- a Victorian world with clockwork horses
- a detective duo
- logic and sorcery as equal forces
- morally complex characters
- a Sherlock Holmes figure
- political intrigue
- electric tension
- court drama, conspiracy and betrayal
📖 Start with The Iron Wyrm Affair
🚫 Not the Right Fit If You Want:
- gentle on-ramp
- light, witty banter
- tidy plots
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