Bøker av Christian Ellingsen

The city-state of Vasini was rebuilt from the ashes left by the fall of the deities. Key to its survival are the docklands of Mid-Port and Southport, where the fish and trade that feed and fuel the city are brought in. As summer begins, the people of quality prepare to elect a new seigneur and médiateur. The city is getting ready to celebrate the Festival of Games and the city wall run. Trade flows freely through the Mid-Port docks. The days may be longer, but there are still deep shadows and threats within them...murders are about to happen. A conflagration at a dockside warehouse leaves a nightwatchman dead. In The Fire, Sergeant Rebecca Flint of the Mid-Port Inspectorate is called to investigate the destruction of the warehouse and the death of the nightwatchman amongst the flames. But why was this warehouse targeted and what was it holding? A local pickpocket is found dead in an alley. In In Service to the Dead, the murder makes no sense to Flint. Why was the pickpocket carrying a satchel with samples of strange plants? Was he murdered out of revenge or for what he carried? And, if it was for what he carried, why was the satchel not taken? The crew of a river boat are shot dead as they travel up the Sini. In Juniper, Flint receives a mysterious note that leads her to an abandoned boat at the Southport river docks. Who owns the boat? Why is it of importance? Who sent the note that led her there and why? As Flint investigates, she'll find answers to these questions and maybe, finally, to some of the other mysteries that she and the docklands have faced over the past months. Tales From Vasini is a companion series of short stories and novellas to The Vasini Chronicles novel series. It tells stories of the wider world of Vasini and its environs. Murder in the Docklands contains the interconnected novellas The Fire, In Service to the Dead, and Juniper.

Vasini, founded and rebuilt from the ashes left by the fall of the deities. A city-state divided by politics, class, philosophies and by the Sini river.As the tides turn and the riverbed is exposed, mudlarks search the silt for valuables that have been washed into the Sini. In The Mudlark's Tale, one mudlark's find may be worth far more than he first thought, but it comes with consequences.In the depths of winter the Sini river freezes, and the comte calls the Winter Fayre upon its ice. In The Winter Fayre, five citizens of Vasini find their lives intersecting and changing as they enjoy the festivities. A sergeant of the Palace Regiment watches for trouble amongst visitors to the Fayre. A pickpocket plies her trade. A palace bureaucrat looks to make political connections. A banker hunts for a mysterious young girl. A follower of a philosophical path attempts to make contact with a fellow adherent who may well be dead.Tales From Vasini is a companion series of short stories and novellas to The Vasini Chronicles novel series. It tells stories of the wider world of Vasini and its environs. A Divided River contains two stories: The Mudlark's Tale (a short story); and The Winter Fayre (a novella).

The deities were destroyed two hundred years ago. The moon split apart, the sun dwindled and the land was devastated. Civilisation has re-emerged from the carnage, but beasts, twisted by the ravages of the dying gods and goddesses, still prowl the savage Wildlands between the city-states. Each year, as winter turns to spring, twisted beasts drift into the farmlands surrounding the city-state of Vasini, threatening herds and livelihoods. In The Hunters, Addy Blake, an apprentice hunter, is hired with her mistress and master to hunt down a beast that is killing shepherds and destroying flocks of sheep. But, as they hunt the beast, it becomes clear that there is more than simple hunger behind why the creature is there. Out in the Wildlands, small independent settlements eek out an existence in walled enclaves free from the interference of the city-states. In In the Ruins of the Deities, one such settlement is asked for aid by a visitor from Vasini. It is down to Nate Tyler and his band of hunters to take the visitor on an expedition through the Wildlands to an abandoned estate. But can they survive against the beasts that now claim the land as their territory and why is the visitor so interested in the ruin? Tales From Vasini is a companion series of short stories and novellas to The Vasini Chronicles novel series. It tells stories of the wider world of Vasini and its environs. Beasts of the Wildlands contains the novellas The Hunters and In the Ruins of the Deities.

The gods and goddesses are dead, killed two hundred years ago. With their destruction the moon split apart, the sun dwindled and the land was devastated. Civilisation has re-emerged from the carnage, but twisted creatures still prowl the savage Wildlands between the city-states.In the skies above the city of Vasini, a falling star, a fragment of the dead moon goddess Serindra, heads to earth. In the Palace district, Dame Vittoria Emerson, darling of the city, has been found dead, lying amongst her own vomit.As Captain Marcus Fox of the Inspectorate hunts the killer, Dr. Elizabeth Reid searches for the remnants of Serindra determined to make sure the poisonous quicksilver it contains is not used. With Vittoria's death threatening to draw the city's political elite into a war of assassins, Fox and Reid must rush to expose the secrets that lie within Vasini before they tear the city-state apart.The Silver Mask is the opening part of The Vasini Chronicles, a series of flintlock-and-alchemy fantasy novels set in the city-state of Vasini.