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Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher

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Also by James J. Butcher:

Grim Folk Tale, January 2027
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Cold Iron Task, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Long Past Dues, September 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Long Past Dues, October 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Dead Man's Hand, September 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Dead Man's Hand, October 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

DEAD MAN'S HAND
By: James J. Butcher

The Unorthodox Chronicles # 1
Ace
October 2022
On Sale: October 11, 2022
Featuring: Grimsby
384 pages
ISBN: 0593440412
EAN: 9780593440414
Kindle: B09Q86HHTZ
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Trade Paperback (September 2023)

Fantasy Magical Realism | Romance Fantasy

On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal Unorthodox. And in the Department of Unorthodox Affairs, the Auditors are the magical elite, government-sanctioned witches with spells at their command and all the power and prestige that comes with it. Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby is…not one of those witches.
 
After flunking out of the Auditor training program and being dismissed as “not Department material,” Grimsby tried to resign himself to life as a mediocre witch. But he can’t help hoping he’ll somehow, someway, get another chance to prove his skill. That opportunity comes with a price when his former mentor, aka the most dangerous witch alive, is murdered down the street from where he works, and Grimsby is the Auditors’ number one suspect.
 
Proving his innocence will require more than a little legwork, and after forming a strange alliance with the retired legend known as the Huntsman and a mysterious being from Elsewhere, Grimsby is abruptly thrown into a life of adventure, whether he wants it or not. Now all he has to do is find the real killer, avoid the Auditors on his trail, and most importantly, stay alive.

The Unorthodox Chronicles

Dead Man's Hand
DEAD MAN'S HAND
#1.0 β€’ October 2022
Long Past Dues
LONG PAST DUES
#2.0 β€’ October 2023
Cold Iron Task
COLD IRON TASK
#3.0 β€’ March 2025
Grim Folk Tale
GRIM FOLK TALE
#4.0 β€’ January 2027