Penric and Desdemona Books in Order

When rumors spread that an ox at his brother in law's bridge building site is demon ridden, Penric turns the case into a field lesson for his adopted daughter and student sorceress Otta. A routine inspection becomes a dangerous mountain search that reshapes both mentor and apprentices.

Called to support Princess Archdivine Llewen at a contentious Temple conclave in the border town of Occo, Penric and Desdemona find themselves navigating old grudges, new plots, and the politics of Carpagamon. What begins as church business turns into a test of their wits and hearts.

Road weary bandit Roz thinks the mild looking Penric with his "treasure map" will make an easy mark. Hiring on as guide and muscle, he learns that Pen never travels alone, and that crossing a Temple sorcerer and his demon can radically change a scoundrel's future.

A shipwrecked six year old girl carrying a very young demon draws Penric, Desdemona, and the kin Jurald family into a tangle of Temple rules, family hopes, and hard questions about a demon's right to live. Pen and Des find themselves, for once, on opposite sides.

An attack on his brother in law General Arisaydia drags Penric into the snake pit of Cedonian imperial politics, where he must uncover hidden sorcerers and hired killers while balancing Temple duty, family loyalties, and Desdemona's dangerous gifts.

When a body hauled from Vilnoc harbor proves not entirely dead, Penric and Desdemona are drawn into an unsettling investigation that probes unfinished deaths, the ethics of demon work, and what justice can look like for the living and the lost.

Summoned to an army fort guarding Vilnoc, Penric must resurrect his medical training to confront a mysterious, fast spreading plague. As soldiers and civilians fall ill, he and Desdemona race to find a cure before the god of mischance claims the field.

Captured by island raiders while traveling by sea, Penric and Desdemona find themselves entangled with two frightened orphaned sisters and the ruthless captors who hold them. Escaping the pirate stronghold will demand every bit of their cunning and magic.

At last safe in Orbas, Penric and Nikys learn that her mother has been seized by enemies and confined on an island sanctuary. Their rescue plan requires slipping back into hostile Cedonia, courting reluctant allies, and trusting Desdemona through every reversal.

Disguised as a minor lawyer, Penric sails to Cedonia on a clandestine diplomatic assignment, only to be arrested, injured, and thrown into a dungeon soon after arrival. His escape pulls him into the fate of a blinded general and the general's determined sister.

Still fleeing Cedonian authorities, Penric escorts General Arisaydia and Nikys toward safety. In a tense border town, he must rely on Desdemona's courtesan persona, Mira, to navigate soldiers, brothels, and suspicion while keeping his wounded charges alive.

Visiting the Weald's capital, Penric is pulled into the case of a murdered Temple sorceress and a demon that may have fled into an ordinary fox. Tracking both the animal and a human killer forces him to collaborate uneasily with local shamans.

Now a trained divine and sorcerer, Penric is sent with a grim Locator to hunt a Wealdean shaman accused of murder. Their trek into the mountains uncovers Great Beasts, tangled grief, and a crime far more complicated than a simple killing.

On Bastard's Eve in the canal city of Lodi, Penric and Desdemona are asked to look in on a madman locked in a tower. Before the night's over they are juggling a dangerous ascendant demon, an unexpected saint, and the thin line between celebration and catastrophe.

On his way to an arranged marriage, young Lord Penric stops to help a dying Temple divine and unexpectedly inherits her chaos demon. Overnight he goes from minor country noble to untrained sorcerer, with a chorus of former lives in his head and a new fate ahead.