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Martha Wells’s brilliant novels The Element of Fire and City of Bones heralded an exciting new voice in
fantasy and garnered huge critical acclaim. Now she presents her most major novel to date—a marvelous
tale of passion, danger, magic and deadly adventure...



the Death of the Necromancer

Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts
of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the
greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien...



On the gaslit streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy
nobles to finance his quest for vengeance: the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orchestrated the
wrongful execution of Nicholas’s beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy—the art of
divination through communion with the dead—a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rien.



But now Nicholas’s murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal
events. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. Children vanish, corpses assume the
visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn’t been used for
centuries are found. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit old house, the truly
monstrous nature of his peril finally emerges in harrowing detail.



Nicholas and his band of criminals and disgraced officers must confront and destroy an ancient and
awesome evil rising from its hideous darkness to conquer all. even the help of Ile-Rien’s greatest sorcerer
may not be sufficient, for Nicholas faces a woefully mismatched battle—with unthinkable horrors in store
for the loser.




Praise for

Martha Wells
For The Death of a Necromancer
 “A seamless blend of fantasy, history, magic and mystery. This is the kind of world that you come to
believe exists, somewhere; a place you leave only reluctantly.”
Sean Russell