I've struggled a bit with other murder mysteries set in fantasy worlds because I have a problem with needing the rules to be defined.

This gave me hope - the world was really well built, with just the right amount of strange combined with enough of the real world to keep me engaged.

The point-of-view Watson character was fun - a guy enhanced to have a perfect memory. This was a weirdly cool way of simulating the fact the reader can flick back a few pages if they missed something...

Ana, the other main character is a cross between Sherlock Holmes and L Lawliet who was well written and the end of the book left me wanting to know much more about her.

I'll definitely be picking up the sequel in April.