The Wire Noose: The Stalker Chronicles Book 1 - Couverture souple

Buchanan, Erik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1777553865 ISBN 13 : 9781777553869

Editeur : Erik Buchanan, 2025

Synopsis

When a magical creature kills, is it murder?

Abraniotok is a vibrant city filled with life, from the citadel's magic-wielding knights, to the gangs of the lower city, to the miscreations -- magically-created beasts -- that lurk in the streets.

Abyowith, once a knight-initiate, is learning to be a Stalker and hunt miscreations. And when her lieutenant is sent to investigate a dead City Councillor, found garrotted in a locked room, Abyowith goes with her. All evidence points to a miscreation, but why would a miscreation break into a man's house, kill him, and lock the door after? And why, that night, does a voice in the darkness tell Abyowith, "Leave him alone!"

With no motive to be found and more victims coming to light, Abyowith begins a search for answers that takes her from the halls of power to the city's underbelly. As she closes in on the killer, Abyowith discovers that learning why the Councillor died may be even more dangerous than tracking the creature who killed him.

"Erik Buchanan is back in full force with a story not-to-be missed! A riveting good mystery, palpitating action scenes, and deep kindness at its core makes The Stalker Chronicles a series fantasy fans will devour!" - Marie Bilodeau, Aurora nominated author of the Guild of Shadows series

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erik Buchanan started reading at age two and has been hooked ever since. He met the Hardy Boys when he was six, Bilbo Baggins when he was eight, and cried for an hour when he was ten because that really shouldn't have happened to Frodo toward the end of The Two Towers. It was also at age 10 that Erik thought, "maybe I could write a story."

Before he was 12 Erik had attempted a novel, an epic poem in rhyming couplets and various bits of stories. In high school he kept writing, and managed to create an impressive portfolio of maudlin teen-age angst-filled poetry that has thankfully not survived.

It was in his last year of high school, in the creative writing class of Mr. Robert Currie, poet laureate of Saskatchewan and an amazing English teacher, where Erik where he had the first vague notions of "being a writer." He kept writing through university, even as the theatre sunk its teeth and claws into him. He came out of university with a B.F.A., a pair of black belts, and a desire to be on the stage.

Erik moved to Toronto and spent years pursuing (but never quite catching) a career as an actor and a fight director. He wrote his first novel in a small attic room in a downtown rooming house, sitting on a cushion on the floor with his laptop perched on a box in front of him. Shortly after, he wrote Small Magics, which was picked up by Gwen Gades of Canada's Dragon Moon Press. Shortly after that his daughter was born and his writing slowed considerable. Still, he managed to produce "Cold Magics," and finish the trilogy with "True Magics."

Then depression hit.

It took five years on medication before Erik managed to escape the grip of the depression. During that time, he worked as a ghostwriter, penning 10 books and editing others for his clients. He also came up with the idea for the Stalker Chronicles.

Erik still lives and works in Toronto, and looks forward to sharing his new series with everyone.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Erik Buchanan
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1777553865
• ISBN 13: 9781777553869
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 133
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg