A Sea of Stars

When Selwyn is falsely accused of murdering Farold and shut into a cave with all of the dead bodies of by-gone years, he's pretty desperate to get out and prove his innocence.

Or just getting out works fine for him as well. By any means necessary.

So when a witch, Elswyth, stumbles upon him and offers him a way out, Selwyn takes it. He agrees to be her slaveminion for 1 year if she lets him out. But wouldn't proving his innocence be easier if he could just ask Farold who killed him? So he asks Elswyth to bring back Farold which adds another year (or two) to his sentence. But Selwyn messes up the spell and Farold, though back, is now a bat. Quite useful, that.

And Farold was stabbed in the back, thus managing not to see his murderer.

Selwyn has one week to find the real killer before he must return to Elswyth and become, basically, her slave. So he asks for a disguise, racking up more years, and heads into town.

Selwyn thinks it should be fairly easy. Not everyone in the town could be a suspect, right?

Wrong. Turns out Farold was a scum-bag while he was alive and practically everyone has some reason to have wanted him dead, from blackmail to inheritance to a woman scorned.



Even though I would have hated Farold when he was alive; as a back-to-life animal of some sort, I actually kinda liked him. Especially in the last chapter.

Pretty enjoyable mystery with enough suspects and motives to keep you guessing.