
explorer / books · 2026
A Drop of Corruption
Published 2025 by Del Rey Books · 480 pages
Hugo · 2026
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Robert Jackson Bennett on these ballots
2 award entries · 2 books · 1 wins · 2025–2026
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Synopsis
Investigator Ana Dolabra and her assistant Dinios Kol travel to Yarrowdale to investigate a Treasury officer's disappearance and apparent murder. The case connects the kingdom's proposed annexation by the Empire of Khanum to an illicit trade in reality-altering leviathan blood.
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Details
- Series
- Shadow of the Leviathan · Book 2
- Author nationality
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780593723821





