Cup of doom

An imperial officer dies in a grand villa in Daretane when a tree violently bursts from his body. Eccentric detective Ana Dolabra and her assistant Dinios Kol are assigned to the case. Dinios has been magically altered to remember every single detail, and he is alternately outraged and captivated by his boss’s antics. Yet as Ana makes one startling breakthrough after another, he realises she is the greatest detective in the empire – and wonders if he can keep his own secrets from her razor-sharp mind.