Alchemist's Agent

It's Almost Too Late To Fix This Mistake...How Do You Break A Curse When It's No More Than They Deserve?Two Engaging Cozy Fantasy Mysteries In One Volume! Ibram Ucalegon is a private investigator in the strictest sense of the term. He only has one client: Lady Azadiya Hobon, the intelligent, poised, and beautiful alchemist who oversees the daily struggles of life in the alchemical village of Lityen, and he investigates whatever she tells him to. In a village crammed with foreign deities, potion pushers, and folk who can see through a man's skin straight to his bones, Ibram's the thoroughly mundane answer to every murky question. Together with his childhood friend, Ahksell Solari, alchemist and movable mountain, they tidy up the dark corners and murderous disputes of Lityen's population amidst the never-ending upheaval of merchants, adventurers, and displaced nobility seeking their fortunes. In The Gilty Party: Ibram thought he knew everything he needed to know about the death of Harken Tolk, but when the man who found him disappears before the inquest, Lady Azadiya has no choice but to reopen the investigation. Did Ibram sign off on a natural death, when the verdict should have been murder? Or is Rustam Monbrith hiding some other secret? In Cursebird On A Wire: Following a short period of unfortunate incarceration, Ibram buys his freedom by promising his jailer an introduction to Lady Azadiya. But on the day of the introductory gala, a cursebird flies in the face of everybody's plans. Can Lady Azadiya discover the culprit and save the party before Ibram trades in his smooth sailing for another hard landing? The Alchemist's Agent Omnibus 1 is a collection of two books in E.M. Burnham's standalone cozy fantasy mystery series: The Alchemist's Agent. The books included are: The Gilty Party, the first book in the series, and Cursebird On A Wire, a prequel novella. E.M. Burnham grew up in Oregon, USA, a long, long time ago, and spent a great deal of time in school daydreaming about worlds just on the other side of the windowpane. She graduated high school, regardless, and went to college in order to pursue her passion for writing and communication. She has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Creative Writing, and another Masters in Library Science. A steady childhood diet of Doctor Who, Mr. Rogers, Masterpiece Theatre, and Vincent Price hosting Mystery on PBS created her love of all things clever, eclectic, and kind. She loves adventures (high and low fantasy) and cheerfully supports whatever soccer team her brother watches on TV. The Alchemist's Agent is her first published series. Even a Golden Age Requires That Alchemical Touch... Especially when peace relies upon a careful balance in the tangled web spun between Empress Soliya IV, the great noble houses, and the alchemical sects. The warders oversee the provinces, and the nobles control their ancient domains, but alchemists are different, content to experiment in their walled compounds, utterly disinterested in common life-at least, they're supposed to be. In practice, divided from the provinces by imperial law and denied noble patronage, the Sect of Seven Fires finds itself responsible for the villages surrounding its mountain compound. After all, if there's no one willing to farm the land, then there's no food to eat, and then who'll map the Heavenly Strata? Enter the Preceptory of Yseult, a most practically minded collective, who put the potions down in favor of worldly ways. Follow Lady Azadiya Hobon, Fourth Mentor, her newest agent Ibram, and Attendant Ahksell as they work to maintain peace in their time--before the empire does it for them!

Dead men can't rob themselvesEvrik Attel wanted to live life on his terms, and where better to start than in Lityen, the village at the foot of the great alchemical Sect of Seven Fires? On the first day of the Preceptory of Yseult's exhibition, he held a card tournament at his draughtshop with a special prize, a deck of lucky cards blessed by a god. Now, he lies dead at Lady Azadiya Hobon's feet.Hot on her heels as ever, Ibram Ucalegon discovers Evrik was robbed of everything except his money. Inside the draughtshop, everyone wanted to profit off of Evrik's work, but no one wants to believe he was murdered. His cousin claims it's on account of foreign food, his prospective business partner says it was bad shellfish, and the Imperial clerk simply wants to escort Lady Azadiya to her meeting.But men don't simply drop dead clutching their throats, and a robbery is a robbery. To find out what really happened, Lady Azadiya and Ibram must discover what caused ... The Body In The Larder?