Blood and Brotherhood

In Auremark, the murdered can be made to answer. A body dead by another’s hand gives up three truths to a consecrated sister of the House of Last Light, and then it is silent, and that silence has been holy since before the House was raised.Now, in a green and treacherous spring, Confessor Minoe Caul kneels to a corpse that has been emptied past its three, wrung dry to a husk by hands that broke the last law of her whole world. The dead man is one of the clean quiet brotherhood that has haunted her since the autumn, murdered in her own city and then desecrated by his own. To learn who did it, Minoe must do the thing she has spent half a year avoiding: walk in among the brotherhood, and turn its whole cold attention toward the House on the hill and the silent child she hides inside it.With the disgraced serjeant Trea working the daylight trail, and a grieving true-believer brother opening a window onto the order’s hidden rot, Minoe follows the murder out of Dunvenne and into the drowned country of the Hallow Marshes, toward a seat where the dead are kept past their peace, and toward the oldest and most patient hunter of all, who has come at last within reach of the thing he most wants.Blood and Brotherhood is the third novel of Three Confessions, a dark, literary fantasy mystery about the price of truth, the people who refuse to pay it, and how far love will go to keep one child out of their hands.