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A wealthy widow claims her dead husband visits every night, and Markhat takes the well-paid case despite his doubts. His search through the Merlet house reveals murder, ghosts, and a past that will not stay buried.

Finder Markhat wants nothing more than a beer at Eddie's, until a troll's missing head puts his own neck at risk. To survive, he must outrun vengeful warriors, backstreet magic, and the threat of another troll war.

A missing seamstress draws Markhat into a battle with a halfdead blood cult and the Corpsemaster, Rannit's feared sorcerer. A powerful artifact may save him, but it also threatens to drag him into darkness.

Markhat is hired by a guilty ghost to uncover the truth behind a corpse stalking a wealthy widow's grounds. The case leads through Rannit's shadowy corners, where murder and the dead have unfinished business.

Markhat investigates strangers mapping an artists' colony by moonlight, expecting an ordinary land dispute. A night of murder and a banshee's cry reveal something ancient beneath the estate, leaving everyone inside under siege.

Darla asks Markhat to find a groom missing just before his wedding, but the wealthy family insists nothing is wrong. As Rannit prepares for war, the case pulls Markhat between old loyalties, new commitments, and rising danger.

Markhat expects a simple security job aboard a lavish vampire-crewed riverboat casino. Instead, assassins, old enemies, and political schemes turn the maiden voyage into a fight to keep the Brown River Queen from running red.

Rannit's powerful figures receive drawings that accurately predict their murders, and no warning saves them. When Markhat receives his own death notice, he must outthink a supernatural killer that can see beyond time.

A sinister traveling carnival arrives outside Rannit, and a rancher hires Markhat to find his missing daughter. Beneath the bright tents and cheap sideshows, Markhat finds death, monsters, and a dangerous carnival master.

Markhat and Darla board a steam train bound across haunted prairie toward the frontier town of Railsend. When murder strikes before sunrise, Markhat must uncover a rogue sorcerer hiding among passengers with secrets.

Markhat, a hard-boiled finder in the magical city of Rannit, tackles three early cases involving a ghost, a troll's missing head, and a corpse haunting a widow's estate. Nothing is quite as dead, or as simple, as it first appears.