Magic and the Shinigami Detective (The Case Files of Henri Davenforth Book 1) by Honor Raconteur

Author:Honor Raconteur [Raconteur, Honor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Goodreads: 39890034
Publisher: Raconteur House, LLC
Published: 2018-04-17T05:00:00+00:00

We had nearly full darkness by the time we arrived at the Kingston Municipal Church. I didn’t question why this location, out of the possible six Edwards listed to me earlier, as this was indeed the most famous haunted site in the entirety of the city. It lay somewhat out on the outskirts, along the northern wall, its grounds triangulated by wall, river, and street. Some of the oldest graves could be found here, and it frankly wouldn’t surprise me if a few ghosts lingered.

Seaton stood just near the front gate, practically bouncing in place. He had on sensible, dignified clothing of a warm wool coat, corduroy trousers, and high boots, as befitting of a man in his station. I couldn’t reconcile the somewhat stiff persona that I knew with this giddy man who looked eerily like a child about to do something he knew he shouldn’t, but would enjoy doing anyway. Was this his true personality? Did the man I know put on a cloak of dignity that he himself didn’t possess?

“What’s kept you?” Seaton demanded of Edwards as soon as we came within earshot. “I’ve been here for ages!”

“Hold your horses,” Edwards countered with amused exasperation, a hand coming up to plant itself on her hip. “Seriously, you’re like a five-year-old on a sugar rush. Sherard, have you met Dr. Henri Davenforth?”

“We’ve met.” I held out a hand. “RM Seaton, we met at a society gathering a year ago, if you recall.”

“I do,” he responded, his high excitement falling away for a moment. “But then it’s hard to forget someone that beat me.”

Still feeling rather smug about that, I gave him the slightest hint of a smile.

Edwards picked up on it and her eyes darted back and forth between us. “What’s this?”

“In our last year of schooling, we’re required to take a final exam. It determines our national rank,” Seaton explained, still with that strange, enigmatic expression on his face. I couldn’t tell if he felt perturbed, irritated, or something else altogether. “Your colleague here beat my own score by ten points and set the national record. I don’t believe anyone’s scored higher since.”

They hadn’t. Not that I checked on that sort of thing, but my mother did, and she was quite gleeful that no one had managed it yet, not even a decade later.

“Is that right?” Edwards studied me with new eyes. “Well. I feel like I’m in the presence of two geniuses.”

“You are, my dear,” Seaton exclaimed, putting an arm around her shoulders in a friendly way that somehow grated along my nerves.

While I felt better about having Seaton on hand, just in case we did come across some spectral energy, I felt equally sure that he would cause some disaster at this rate. He was far too excited.

“What are we possibly waiting on?” Seaton demanded of her.

“A precaution.” I shot him a stern look before taking out Warner’s device and another set of glasses from my front pocket. I handed the glasses to Edwards, explaining as I did so, “I couldn’t find a method of altering this lens so that you could use it.

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