In the last couple of years I gathered a series of
books I read and enjoyed a lot but for which I never managed to sit down and
write a review. Sometimes I feel guilty about it, but most often I am just
happy I was able to discover their magic. Of course, it doesn’t compensate my
wish to have actually showcased these titles with a proper review on the blog,
but in a way it is better than nothing. One author who became quickly one of my
favorites and ended up in the said list is Daniel
Abraham. I had review copies of the first three novels of the “Long Price Quartet” at the time of
their release but I didn’t read them then. To make the matter a little bit
worse, all the four novels in Daniel Abraham’s series are among the books I
read and enjoyed in the fullest in the recent years and never got around to
write the review I had in mind. It is a matter to be considered for the future.
Yet again much later than the publication day I finished last week-end “The Dragon’s Path”, the excellent
first novel in Daniel Abraham’s “The
Dagger and the Coin” series, but at least in this case I am already writing
my review. It is a start and I am hoping to catch up with the other two novels of
the series really soon. I also hope to catch up with the stories of two other
characters born from Daniel Abraham’s pen, Balfour and Meriwether, until the
new novella featuring their adventures comes up from Subterranean Press. “Balfour and Meriwether in the Incident of
the Harrowmoor Dogs” is scheduled to be released on October this year and is
the third adventure of this pair of special agents after “The Adventure of the Emperor’s Vengeance” and “The Vampire of Kabul”, both available in digital format in the
volume “Balfour and Meriwether in Two
Adventures” published by SnackReads. If the first two are short stories and
the volume containing them is about 40 pages long, “Balfour and Meriwether in
the Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs” is a novella length adventure of about 90
pages. The cover artwork of the volume is made by David Palumbo and while I am not a big fan of characters on covers
I find it difficult to argue with how the things turned out here. I could say that I can’t wait to get a
copy of this novella, but although it is true I also have some things to put in
order with Daniel Abraham’s works that I am certain the time until “Balfour and
Meriwether in the Incident of Harrowmoor Dogs” is released will seem short.
When
a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service
goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair.
They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors risen from hell, prophecy, sexual
perversion, and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor
Sanitarium. The earth itself will bare its secrets and the Empire itself
will tremble in the face of the hidden dangers they discover, but the greatest
peril is the one they have brought with them.
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