Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club
Wed, Mar 26
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for the discussion with your host, Laura.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Buy The Tainted Cup on Bookshop.org
A Holmes and Watson-style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett
"Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett--[a] rising star of fantasy--more than delivers."--Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
"A thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish."--Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
AN NPR AND BOOKPAGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In Daretana's greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead--killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire's borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it's a death both terrifying and impossible.