Murder In Absentia - Mehr, Assaph
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"Mehr creates a vivid cast and an equally vivid setting in which magic just seems to fit in perfectly." -- Richard Knaak, NYT best-selling author of author of Legends of Huma "Mehr's imagined world based on ancient Rome feels at once familiar and dreamlike." -- Ruth Downie, author of the Medicus series of Roman mysteries "Hardcore Historical Fantasy - Felix the Fox is Sherlock Holmes in Ancient Times" -- Jonathan Maas, author of City of Gods - Hellenica "Mehr is a master alchemist, blending the real and surreal on a captivating flight of fantasy." -- Cynthia Celmer A young man is found dead in…mehr

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"Mehr creates a vivid cast and an equally vivid setting in which magic just seems to fit in perfectly." -- Richard Knaak, NYT best-selling author of author of Legends of Huma "Mehr's imagined world based on ancient Rome feels at once familiar and dreamlike." -- Ruth Downie, author of the Medicus series of Roman mysteries "Hardcore Historical Fantasy - Felix the Fox is Sherlock Holmes in Ancient Times" -- Jonathan Maas, author of City of Gods - Hellenica "Mehr is a master alchemist, blending the real and surreal on a captivating flight of fantasy." -- Cynthia Celmer A young man is found dead in his bed, with a look of extreme agony on his face and strange tattoos all over his body. His distraught senator father suspects foul play, and knows who to call on. Enter Felix the Fox, a professional investigator. In the business of ferreting out dark information for his clients, Felix is neither a traditional detective nor a traditional magician - but something in between. Drawing on his experience of dealing with the shady elements of society and his aborted education in the magical arts, Felix dons his toga and sets out to discover the young man's killers. Murder in absentia is set in a fantasy world. The city of Egretia borrows elements from a thousand years of ancient Roman culture, from the founding of Rome to the late empire, mixed with a judicious amount of magic. This is a story of a cynical, hardboiled detective dealing with anything from daily life to the old forces roaming the world. This is a story of Togas, Daggers and Magic - for lovers of Murder Mysteries, Ancient Rome and Urban Fantasy.
Autorenporträt
Assaph has been a Romanophile ever since he first got his hands on Asterix, way back in elementary school. This exacerbated when his parents took him on a trip to Rome and Italy - he whinged horribly when they dragged him to "yet another church with baby angels on the ceiling", yet was happy to skip all day around ancient ruins and museums for Etruscan art. He has since been feeding his addiction for books with stories of mystery and fantasy of all kinds. A few years ago he randomly picked a copy of a Lindsay Davis' Marcus Didius Falco novel in a used book fair, and fell in love with Rome all over again, this time from the view-point of a cynical adult. His main influences in writing are Steven Saylor, Lindsey Davis, and Barry Hughart. Assaph now lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife Julia, four kids and two cats. By day he is a software product manager, bridging the gap between developers and users, and by night he's a couch potato. Unless he's writing - he seems to do his best writing after midnight.