Kropla zepsucia
by Robert Jackson Bennett, Робърт Джаксън Бенет
- First published 2025
- 512 pages
- Polish
A Treasury officer has vanished from a locked room inside a guarded tower in Yarrowdale, at the far edge of the Empire, and no door or window was ever opened. The Empire sends the brilliant, difficult Ana Dolabra to solve it, with her assistant Dinios Kol at her side. What looks like a disappearance is a murder, committed by someone who walks through warded doors like smoke and anticipates Ana's every move. Behind it all stands the Shroud, the sealed compound where fallen titans are bled for the magic that powers the Empire. If it falls, everything stops. Din has watched Ana untangle the impossible before, but never against an enemy already one step ahead.
- Genres
- Fiction › Crime & mysteryFiction › Speculative fiction › Fantasy › Epic fantasyFiction › Speculative fiction › Science fictionFiction › Thriller & suspenseFiction › Speculative fiction › Fantasy › Dark fantasy
- Themes
- LGBTQ+ › QueerCrime & justice › Detectives Crime & justiceCrime & justice › MurderOppression & injustice › Colonialism
- Mood
- Dark Mysterious Funny
- Tropes
- Locked room
- Protagonist
- Female protagonist Male protagonist
- Style
- Narration: First person
What readers say
4.46
61K ratings across the web 9 in 10 readers loved it
Loved locked-room mystery and Ana-and-Din banter, split on pacing and empire politics. Worth it if you liked book one.
- Praised
- Worldbuilding Characters Plot
- Best for
- Fans of Sherlock-style fantasy mysteriesReaders who love weird biopunk worldsSequel readers who love detective duos
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Details & editions
- This edition
- A.mag, 2026
- ISBN
- 9788368591439
- Language
- Polish
Original edition A Drop of Corruption Originally published in 2025 · English · Del Rey









