Anna Nymers investigates cases that ordinary criminalistics can’t handle: cursed mirrors, ancient relics, and creatures that feed on human joy. Their work is not only about solving strange incidents, but also about keeping the darkness at a distance and protecting people.
In a city where magical artifacts are discovered now and then, the police don’t always have enough resources—so the Bureau of Magical Investigations steps in. Anna Nymers can wake an elderly woman from a long lethargic sleep after she accidentally fell under the spells of a mirror, prevent dark forces from taking hold of an old manuscript, and stop the enchanted bullets flying straight into the heart. But artifacts are only the top of the problem: far more frightening are the dæmons that live alongside ordinary townspeople, draining their joy and tearing apart the very fabric of the soul. And even if Alan is used to hiding his anxiety behind jokes, and Anna acts carefully and pedantically, they are united by one goal— to make the lives of the townspeople safer and find a way once and for all to put an end to the dæmons.