2022/79: Knot of Shadows -- Lois McMaster Bujold

2022/79: Knot of Shadows -- Lois McMaster Bujold

If a man found dead in the harbor in his nightshirt was mysterious, a man found dead in the harbor in somebody else’s nightshirt was utterly inexplicable. [loc. 415]

This latest instalment in the Penric and Desdemona series is another novella, a murder mystery set in the port city of Vilnoc in winter. A corpse is found in the harbour, wearing another man's nightshirt: so far, so ordinary. But when the 'corpse' wakes up in the morgue and starts banging on the door (from the inside), Learned Penric and his attendant chaos demon are called in to advise. Surely this is a textbook case of demonic possession?

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