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A wry, hardbitten solicitor with a bad knee and a brave cocker spaniel walks into a bomb, a fake heiress, and a family conspiracy—then fights to get one real woman her life back. I woke up with one brogue, a dog in my office, and a metal cigar case in my jacket that my gut said would remove me from the gene pool if I pressed the wrong button. That was the start of it. By the time the train reached the Cairngorms I'd got a dead woman on a bed that wasn’t the heiress, a fake identity stitched together like bad theatre, and a solicitor who’d decided law was only a suggestion. I’m no detective.

Matt Borne’s thrilling reimagining of this classic play explores the ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligence, the blurred lines between human and machine, and the power of empathy in bridging seemingly insurmountable divides.

A young woman, almost just a girl, is found dead in the town wizard’s shop. It looks like suicide, but she has scratched down some runes as she died - a message to Turik the wizard. With his friends Jendra and Pym, he sets out on town to find who’s behind a series of deaths among the young women - they were all forced into the labor of night fairies.

A series of fires spread in Moorport, several dozen young people are killed, and Turik the wizard is trying to understand what is happening to his town. With some unexpected help from the faun Pym, he think he’s on the trail to a solution, or is it just his own doom?

A desperate dark elf seek the wizard’s assistance to ease her husband’s fears. She claims that he can hear shadows in the walls that intend to take him. As she herself is attacked on the street Turik the Wizard and Jendra Andoral has to assist in any way they can, taking them outside the city walls to a place they did not know about. In the series of The Wizard of Moorport, we get to follow the old town wizard Turik, his sword wielding friend and half elf, Jendra Andoral, and the faun Pym, how runs errands and do odd jobs for the old wizard.

In the winding, enigmatic streets of San Marino, private investigator Luigi Ferro leads a life steeped in routine and solitude, until a desperate Romanian father steps into his world, clutching an envelope of savings and a story that tugs at Ferro's seasoned heart. His daughter, an aspiring dancer, vanished into the vibrant labyrinth of Venice, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic text about a mysterious agent in Rimini.

Linda Loray said yes—until her late-night train deposits her in fog-choked Torburg, where her enigmatic match, Holt Carst, is missing and the only greeting is an open casket in a decaying hotel lobby. When midnight bells toll, corpse-white hands batter the doors: the League of Lazarus—undead aristocrats who rise nightly to claim a living bride. Linda’s scream ignites a nightmare chase through moonlit graveyards, collapsing stairwells, and a bone-lit crypt where Holt sheds his charming mask and raises a whip.

Hard-boiled private investigator Luigi Ferro is summoned to an elite boarding school in Ravenna to solve the brutal murder of a wealthy Swiss student.

Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes—marks of a distant land she cannot remember—Sot is both admired and feared, called witch and warrior in equal measure. But beneath her poised exterior, she wrestles with a restless heart and an aching desire for identity. When she leaves the comfort of Roar’s protection to follow the enigmatic Saxon warrior Eadric, Sot plunges into a world fraught with treachery and bloodshed.