Thieves' Quarry (D.B. Jackson)
Synopsis of "Thieves' Quarry", second book of "Thieftaker Chronicles" by D.B. Jackson: Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, September 28, 1768. Autumn has come to New England, and with it a new threat to the city of Boston. British naval ships have sailed into Boston Harbor bearing over a thousand of His Majesty King George III’s soldiers. After a summer of rioting and political unrest, the city is to be occupied.
Ethan Kaille, thieftaker and conjurer, is awakened early in the morning by a staggeringly powerful spell, a dark conjuring of unknown origin. Before long, he is approached by representatives of the Crown. It seems that every man aboard the HMS Graystone has died, though no one knows how or why. They know only that there is no sign of violence or illness. Ethan soon discovers that one soldier a man who is known to have worked with Ethan’s beautiful and dangerous rival, Sephira Pryce has escaped the fate of his comrades and is not among the Graystone’s dead. Is he the killer, or is there another conjurer loose in the city, possessed of power sufficient to kill so many with a single dark casting?
Ethan, the missing soldier, and Sephira Pryce and her henchmen all scour the city in search of a stolen treasure which seems to lie at the root of all that is happening. At the same time, though, Boston’s conjurers are under assault from the royal government as well as from the mysterious conjurer. Men are dying. Ethan is beaten, imprisoned, and attacked with dark spells.
And if he fails to unravel the mystery of what befell the Graystone, every conjurer in Boston will be hanged as a witch. Including him.
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Lots of authors go by multiple names. Case in point — David B. Coe and D.B. Jackson. David is my friend, a person I first met online, then met in ..http://www.mindyklasky.com/index.php/2013/06/d-b-jacksons-thieves-quarry/
Look! A new Thieftaker book. I am so enjoying D.B. Jackson’s historic fantasy series. It’s set in pre-Revolutionary War Boston and isn’t just histori..http://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit-d-b-jackson-talks-about-thieves-quarry/
Ethan Kaille is a thieftaker in pre-Revolutionary Boston, working outside the law to apprehend thieves and recover stolen property. For the most par..http://fantasy-faction.com/2014/thieves-quarry-by-d-b-jackson
Follow-up to the dark urban historical fantasy Thieftaker (2012), from an author who also writes as David B. Coe. In the rough, tough pre-Revolution..https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/db-jackson/thieves-quarry/
A pet peeve of mine for any fictional story taking place within a historical background is when the author sacrifices the story in an effort to show..http://litstack.com/book-review-thieves-quarry/
Set three years after the events of the first book, Thieftaker, this second installment in D.B. Jackson’s Thieftaker Chronicles sees a return to the..http://www.rantingdragon.com/review-of-thieves-quarry-thieftaker-chronicles-2-by-d-b-jackson/
D.B. Jackson returns to Colonial Boston and conjuring thieftaker Ethan Kaille in this sequel to Thieftaker (book two of a current four in The Thieft..https://everydayshouldbetuesday.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/review-thieves-quarry-d-b-jackson/
Generally speaking, Thieves’ Quarry was an easier book to write than Thieftaker, the first book in my Thieftaker Chronicles. I felt more comfortabl..http://fictionreboot-dailydose.com/2013/07/08/d-b-jackson-sequel/
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