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The three titles in the The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire series by Rod Duncan have dropped to $1.99/$2.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I debated a little while about where to list these - Kindle puts them in mystery, but the descriptions feel more like fantasy/alternate history, the blurbs say to list them under fantasy, and SYKM doesn't list this series, although they do list some of Duncan's other titles. Oh, and the first one says it was a finalist for the Philip K Dick award, and not for the Edgar, Agatha, or Anthony, so I went for putting them here and will put a cross-post in the mystery thread.

The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter, #1, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Catche...dp/B00IQQUYTW/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...her-s-daughter

Spoiler:

Finalist for the 2014 Phillip K. Dick Award

Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life – as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus.

But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better…

File Under: Fantasy

Unseemly Science, #2, $1.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Unseemly-Scie...dp/B00MDHLPDE/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/unseemly-science

Spoiler:

In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life - as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. Witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher's Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. If only it were that easy!

There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. But something doesn't feel right to Elizabeth. Perhaps it is time for her fictional brother to come out of retirement for one last case...? Her unstoppable curiosity leads her to a dark world of body-snatching, unseemly experimentation, politics and scandal. Never was it harder for a woman in a man's world...

File Under: Fantasy

The Custodian of Marvels, #3, $2.99
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Custodian-Mar...dp/B00X2E2MAC/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...ian-of-marvels

Spoiler:

You’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.

Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire. All that stands in Elizabeth’s way are the agents of the Patent Office, a Duke’s private army and the mysterious Custodian of Marvels.

Rod Duncan returns with the climactic volume ofThe Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, the breathtaking alternate history series that began with the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter.

File Under: Fantasy [ Time Runs Out | The Duke’s Enemy | Open the Vault | A Union ]