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It's Blasphemer's Week, the annual period during which the gods vacation at Mount Olympus and ignore the inconsequential mortals, and it always begins with blood. This year's first victim is a former police officer, murdered while getting butter from his fridge. Now, Virgil Glezos, the city-state's first detective on his first case, must track the killer by inventing techniques that combine magic and technology. He is aided by a professional dance choreographer, a bio-warfare expert who doesn't want to be there, two police officers who hate him, and a priest who may or may not be trying to kill him. When Virgil uncovers something deeper than a single murder, he must quickly become the wrong person at the right time to stop the greater plot against humanity.

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"""A truly original blend of humor, mythology, crime, and dystopia. Unexpected and fun."" -Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, author of Glorious Fiends and Grim Root ""Harpold's Virgil is an instant comrade with those other great eccentric investigators from Sherlock Holmes to Monk, navigating social mores and his own neuroses, all while unraveling a mystery in a fully realized alternate historical context."" -Patrick Barb, author of Pre-Approved for Haunting and Abducted (coming 2025)"

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Robert E. Harpold has been writing stories since he was seven years old, and most of those stories will be shown to no one. In previous jobs, he traveled to Greenland and Antarctica and operated spacecraft. Now he designs spacecraft trajectories, which is his realistic dream job. His dream job is the same as everyone else's: astronaut. He is married to the most amazing wife, and they have a wonderful daughter and son.

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