{"product_id":"the-hexologists","title":"The Hexologists","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists. \"Bancroft is a magician.\" -- Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fantastic! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvelous worldbuilding and an excellent plot - and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne.\" -- Genevieve Cogman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake--going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven--the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for a case that will test every spell, skill, and odd magical artifact in their considerable bag of tricks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Bancroft is a wonder as ever! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e was a joyous delight on every page-- buoyantly inventive, witty, poignant, gripping, and deeply satisfying.\" -- Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Josiah Bancroft's imagination will astound you. One of the most inventive fantasy authors out there.\" -- Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Bancroft has returned to the page in force, deploying his crystal prose and razored wit around a tale that mixes whimsy and threat in equal measure. He's a gift to the genre\u003ci\u003e.\" \u003c\/i\u003e-- Mark Lawrence, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book That Wouldn't Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0316443301\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316443302\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Bancroft, Josiah\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Orbit\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Orbit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 2023)","offer_id":46079923650757,"sku":"9780316443302","price":18.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316443302.jpg?v=1776033099","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-hexologists","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}