In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor.On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches.
After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect.
Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.Dead Man's Hand by David Nix | Goodreads Dead Man's Hand Jake Paynter is a doomed man. Haunted by an abusive childhood and his participation in atrocities of the Civil War, Dead Man's Hand - Spotify Listen to Dead Man's Hand on Spotify. Artist · 109 monthly listeners. Dead Man's Hand - Great Escape Games Dead Man's Hand, Old West 28mm, Wild West 28mm. Dead man's hand definition and meaning - Collins Dictionary Dead man's hand definition: a hand containing the two pairs of two aces and two eights | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples. Dead Man's Hand | Concord Theatricals "A teasing, very theatrical play which dares to laugh at itself and its genre until the Dead Man shows his hand." - East Essex Gazette.