Elsa Hart, "City of Ink" (Minotaur Books, 2018)

New Books in Literature · Apr 26, 2019 · 37m

If there is one thing more fun than discovering a new (to oneself) author, it is discovering a new author with a series already well underway. In City of Ink (Minotaur Books, 2018), the third of Elsa Hart’s mystery novels set in early eighteenth-century China during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor and featuring former imperial librarian Li Du and his storytelling friend Hamza, Li has returned to his former home of Beijing. His intention is to learn more about the events that led to his own exile from the capital years before, the result of guilt by association. But he soon discovers that the…