The Violently Departed

""A fast-paced, stylish crime thriller stabbing into the heart of a vicious dark academia."" – Cameron Johnston, author of First Mage On The Moon ""Atmospheric prose, seamless worldbuilding, and clever, buddy-cop hijinks make The Violently Departed a fast-paced fun and darkly delightful read."" – Salinee Goldenberg, author of Way of the Walker ""Abandon ennui, all who enter here and descend into the hellish, lyrical delights of The Violently Departed – half literary epic, half thriller, entirely a masterpiece!"" – Patricia A. Jackson, author of Forging A Nightmare ""Clever, entertaining and imaginative, this was a wholly enjoyable read."" – Gabriela Houston, author of Binding the Cuckoo, The Second Bell and The Bone Roots ""In The Violently Departed, Sarah J Daley has constructed yet another world I want to visit populated by characters I'm not sure I should hug, shake, chat up, or flee. It's wonderfully confusing!"" – R.W.W. Greene, author of Mercury Retrograde ""The reader is swept along by Daley's silky-smooth prose, and by the time I got to the breathless conclusion, I realized I'd been up all night."" – Khan Wong, author of Circus Infinite and Down in the Sea of Angels ""A barnstorming pandemonium of devils, bar-fights, and battle-nuns, but above all, a hell of a good time.” – S K Horton, author of Gorse and Ragwort ""With humour, pathos, and not a little arson, The Violently Departed is a spellbinding whodunnit filled with twists, turns, and infernal machinations."" – MK Hardy, author of The Needfire ""equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Constantine"" – Dan Hanks, author of Swashbucklers and The Way Up Is Death