The cloaks continue to swirl and the blades to flash as Haern the Watcher butchers his way through Dalglish’s third ... passed since the thief war in A Dance of Blades was settled, though ...

The first volume of Dalglish’s Shadowdance trilogy, a “frenetic masterpiece” with “growing pains” (to quote the author’s modest afterword) that achieved self-published success ...