https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=Bennett%2C%20Robert%20Jackson%2C&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 09:50:42 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2563304https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2563304Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2563304126BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984820709/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from acclaimed author Robert Jackson Bennett
“Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery is hard to pull off but Bennett structures his perfectly, and the fact that it’s in a fantasy setting only makes it better.”—T. J. Klune, The New York Times

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle, BookPage

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.
Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.
At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, magically altered in ways that make him the perfect aide to Ana’s brilliance. Din is at turns scandalized, perplexed, and utterly infuriated by his new superior—but as the case unfolds and he watches Ana’s mind leap from one startling deduction to the next, he must admit that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.
As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.
By an “endlessly inventive” (Vulture) author with a “wicked sense of humor” (NPR), The Tainted Cup mixes the charms of detective fiction with brilliant world-building to deliver a fiendishly clever mystery that’s at once instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9832065https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9832065Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9832065980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984820723/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2627962https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2627962Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2627962126BKAn Ana and Din Mysteryenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593723821/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1607272https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1607272Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1607272126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804137171/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2008910https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2008910Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2008910126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524760366/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1510383https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1510383Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1510383126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316200202/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2417640https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2417640Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2417640126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984820679/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The jaw-dropping conclusion to the acclaimed Founders Trilogy, from the Hugo–nominated author of Foundryside and Shorefall
“It’s so rare to love every single book in a trilogy, to admire the aim, precision, and storytelling stamina this much.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The Quill to Live
Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against long odds in the past. But the war they’re fighting now is one even they can’t win.
This time, they’re not facing robber-baron elites or even an immortal hierophant, but an entity whose intelligence is spread over half the globe—one that uses the magic of scriving to control not just objects but human minds.
 
To fight it, they’ve used scriving technology to transform themselves and their allies into an army—a society—unlike anything humanity has seen before. With its strength at their backs, they’ve freed a handful of their enemy’s hosts from servitude, and even defeated some of its fearsome, reality-altering dreadnoughts.
 
Yet despite their efforts, their enemy marches on. Implacable. Unstoppable.
 
Now, as their opponent closes in on its true prize—an ancient doorway, long buried, that leads to the chambers at the center of creation itself—Sancia and her friends glimpse a last opportunity to stop this unbeatable foe. To do so, they’ll have to unlock the centuries-old mystery of scriving’s origins, embark on a desperate mission into the heart of their enemy’s power, and pull off the most daring heist they’ve ever attempted.
 
But their adversary might have a spy in their ranks—and a last trick up its sleeve.
 
And to have a chance at victory, Sancia, Clef, and Berenice will have to make a sacrifice beyond anything that’s come before.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6524294https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C6524294Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/6524294980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984820693/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2233809https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2233809Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2233809126BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524760380/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1713901https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1713901Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1713901126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553419719/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=As a magical revolution remakes a city, an ancient evil is awakened in a brilliant novel from the Hugo-nominated author of Foundryside and the Divine Cities trilogy.
“An absolutely wild ride . . . Foundryside blew me away, and this is a perfect sequel.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
 
A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s hoping to transform her city into something new. Something better. Together with allies Orso, Gregor, and Berenice, she’s about to strike a deadly blow against Tevanne’s cruel robber-baron rulers and wrest power from their hands for the first time in decades.
 
But then comes a terrifying warning: Crasedes Magnus himself, the first of the legendary hierophants, is about to be reborn. And if he returns, Tevanne will be just the first place to feel his wrath.
 
Thousands of years ago, Crasedes was an ordinary man who did the impossible: Using the magic of scriving—the art of imbuing objects with sentience—he convinced reality that he was something more than human. Wielding powers beyond comprehension, he strode the world like a god for centuries, meting out justice and razing empires single-handedly, cleansing the world through fire and destruction—and even defeating death itself.
 
Like it or not, it’s up to Sancia to stop him. But to have a chance in the battle to come, she’ll have to call upon a god of her own—and unlock the door to a scriving technology that could change what it means to be human. And no matter who wins, nothing will ever be the same.
 
The awe-inspiring second installment of the Founders Trilogy, Shorefall returns us to the world Robert Jackson Bennett created in his acclaimed Foundryside . . . and forges it anew.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4857512https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4857512Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4857512980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524760397/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1835399https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1835399Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1835399126PAPERBACKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553419733/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • Thrust into the dark mystery at the heart of the city of miracles, a vengeful bodyguard discovers that the gods might not be as dead as he thinks—in the stunning conclusion to the Divine Cities trilogy from the nationally bestselling author of The Tainted Cup.
“The thing I have always loved about Bennett’s Divine Cities books is the worldbuilding. His universe is one of brilliant juxtaposition.”—NPR
Sigrud je Harkvaldsson doesn’t waste his time contemplating vanquished gods or divine mysteries. He understands one code—loyalty—and speaks one language. Revenge.
So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do—and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara’s killers deserve.
Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable one. Because discovering the truth behind Shara’s death will require him to take up arms in a secret, decades-long war, face down an angry young god, and unravel the last mysteries of Bulikov, the city of miracles itself. And—perhaps most daunting of all—finally face the truth about his own cursed existence.
Don’t miss any of Robert Jackson Bennet’s Divine Cities trilogy:
CITY OF STAIRS • CITY OF BLADES • CITY OF MIRACLES]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3027941https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3027941Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3027941980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553419740/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2085751https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2085751Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2085751126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250209443/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1457813https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1457813Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1457813126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316187527/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1324478https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1324478Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1324478126BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316054683/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1424088https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1424088Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1424088126PAPERBACKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316054706/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BOOKPAGE’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup.
“Wonderfully clever and compulsively readable . . . another winning blend of fantasy and classic detection.”—Publishers Weekly
In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside.
To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.
Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder—and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.
Worse still, the killer may be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud, where the Empire harvests fallen titans for the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn.
Din has seen his superior solve impossible cases before. But as the death toll grows and their quarry predicts each of Ana’s moves with uncanny foresight, he fears that she has at last met an enemy she can’t defeat.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10768218https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C10768218Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/10768218980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593723838/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=HUGO AWARD WINNER • WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from acclaimed author Robert Jackson Bennett
“Like an endearing fantasy version of Knives Out . . . A great murder mystery is hard to pull off but Bennett structures his perfectly, and the fact that it’s in a fantasy setting only makes it better.”—T. J. Klune, The New York Times

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle, BookPage

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.
Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.
At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, magically altered in ways that make him the perfect aide to Ana’s brilliance. Din is at turns scandalized, perplexed, and utterly infuriated by his new superior—but as the case unfolds and he watches Ana’s mind leap from one startling deduction to the next, he must admit that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.
As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.
By an “endlessly inventive” (Vulture) author with a “wicked sense of humor” (NPR), The Tainted Cup mixes the charms of detective fiction with brilliant world-building to deliver a fiendishly clever mystery that’s at once instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9893176https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9893176Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9893176980EAUDIOBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593823866/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=“The exciting beginning of a promising new epic fantasy series. Prepare for ancient mysteries, innovative magic, and heart-pounding heists.”—Brandon Sanderson

“Complex characters, magic that is tech and vice versa, a world bound by warring trade dynasties: Bennett will leave you in awe once you remember to breathe!”—Tamora Pierce
In a city that runs on industrialized magic, a secret war will be fought to overwrite reality itself—the first in a dazzling new series from City of Stairs author Robert Jackson Bennett.
 
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle.
 
But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic—the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience—have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine. But if they can unlock the artifact’s secrets, they will rewrite the world itself to suit their aims.
 
Now someone in those Houses wants Sancia dead, and the artifact for themselves. And in the city of Tevanne, there’s nobody with the power to stop them.
 
To have a chance at surviving—and at stopping the deadly transformation that’s under way—Sancia will have to marshal unlikely allies, learn to harness the artifact’s power for herself, and undergo her own transformation, one that will turn her into something she could never have imagined.]]>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3864674https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3864674Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3864674980EBOOKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524760373/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1576566https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1576566Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1576566126PAPERBACKAll-new Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062240286/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1600402https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1600402Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1600402126EBOOKAll-new Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062240293/MC.GIF&client=chicagoplb&type=xw12&oclc=