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The heir claims he doesn’t remember. The evidence says otherwise. Robert Jackson Bennett returns to the world of the Ana and Din Mysteries with the third and most ambitious entry yet. When the heir to a powerful family faces execution for murder, brilliant detective Ana Dolabra and her assistant Din Kol are called in to find the truth—no matter how impossible it looks.
What they uncover is a web of conspiracy stretching across cantons, where a condemned heir with blood-stained hands claims no memory of the crime, and an ancient magical technology seems to pass effortlessly through protective wards. As tensions rise between the powerful Sapirdad canton and the farming regions that feed it, a failed investigation would not just cost one man his life—it could ignite a war.
Published in August 2026, A Trade of Blood blends locked-room mystery logic with sweeping epic fantasy, following Ana’s mercurial brilliance as she navigates political intrigue, strange magic, and a cunning mastermind’s deadly game. Read it after The Tainted Cup and A Drop of Corruption; it is fantasy mystery at its most inventive.
Robert Jackson Bennett returns to the world of the Ana and Din Mysteries with the third and most ambitious entry yet. When the heir to a powerful family faces execution for murder, brilliant detective Ana Dolabra and her eccentric assistant Din Kol are called in to find the truth — no matter how impossible it looks.
What they uncover is a web of conspiracy stretching across cantons, where a condemned heir with blood-stained hands claims no memory of the crime, and an ancient magical technology seems to pass effortlessly through protective wards. As tensions rise between the powerful Sapirdad canton and the farming regions that feed it, a failed investigation would not just cost one man his life — it could ignite a war.
Published in August 2026, A Trade of Blood blends locked-room mystery logic with sweeping epic fantasy, following Ana’s mercurial brilliance as she navigates political intrigue, strange magic, and a cunning mastermind’s deadly game. It delivers everything readers have loved about this series: clever deduction, richly imagined worldbuilding, and two of the most delightfully odd detectives in modern fantasy.
Whether you are a longtime fan of the series or discovering Ana and Din for the first time, this is fantasy mystery at its most inventive — a case where solving the crime means preventing a catastrophe.
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