The Inquisitor's Apprentice (ARC)

360 Pages·2016·6.33 MB·English

by  Moriarty Chris

Sacha discovers
he can see magic—
and his world turns upside down.
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—Garth Nix

B ing an Inquisit r is no o
or a nice e ish bo But Sacha’s new talent gets him yanked out of
everyday life on Hester Street and apprenticed to the Police Depart-
ment’s star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. The Inquisitors’ mission is
to stop magical crime. And New York at the beginning of the twentieth
century is a magical melting pot, where each ethnic group has its own
brand of homegrown witchcraft.
Soon Sacha has teamed up with fellow apprentice Lily Astral,
daughter of one of the city’s richest Wall Street Wizards—and a spoiled
snob, if you ask Sacha. Their first job is to find out who’s trying to kill
Thomas Edison.
Edison has invented a machine that could unleash the worst witch-
hunt in American history. Every magician in town has a motive to kill
him. But as the investigation unfolds, all the clues lead back to the
Lower East Side. And Sacha soon realizes that his own family could be
accused of murder!
Chris Moriarty is an award-winning science fiction author who wrote
this book for her son, the real-life Sacha. Chris lives in upstate New York.
Mark Edward GEyEr is best known as the illustrator of Stephen
King’s The Green Mile. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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TITLE: Inquisitor's Apprentice
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