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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Author | Lisa A. Barnett Melissa Scott |
| Year | Tor Books, 2011 |
| First Published | 2011 |
| ISBN | 0312867824 |
| Goodreads ID | 836593 |
| Google Books ID | GgVKPgAACAAJ |
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In the alternate Renaissance world of Point of Dreams, the dead return with the ghost–tide to haunt the living, and when a ghost fails to appear, it may mean the person was murdered. Though a dead judge’s ghost is missing, the regents of the city of Astreiant forbid Pointsman Nicolas Rathe to investigate. And that’s not the detective’s only problem.
His suddenly homeless partner is moving in with him. The city is in a frenzy over a popular play, The Drowned Island, and the dangerous spell book it has popularized.
His assigned case, an actor’s murder, appears unsolvable — the actor drowned in a theater in which there is no water. And another body has just been found …