Tea for a Ghost

In the town of Semirechye, fog at night erases all traces, and those killed by sorcery (and by ordinary means too) are found out in the morning as if they were suicides. That’s why every evening Mother Shané lights a candle—the glow of which draws the souls of the killed—and over a cup of tea she asks them: who, why, because of what… If the spirit remembers little, the city detectives will figure it out. The main thing is to make them believe it was a murder. To find the killer. And for the spirit to find peace.

There is no single overarching plot. There are seven detective-sorcery stories, and each has its own plot. But the town and the heroes are the same.

The first book of the Semirechye cycle.