Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation, and they must all work together to uncover a mystery mixing magic, murder, and the strange realities of Temple demons.
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"In this series set in a world where chaos demons can inhabit the living giving them powers and making them sorcerers, Penric who has an ancient, demon and is thus a sorcerer investigates the murder of a sorceress. Not only must he find out who killed her, and why, but must find out what happened to her demon, since when the person (or animal) inhabited by the demon, the demon chooses and jumps to a close by person, or animal if available."
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nAlan (4 out of 5 stars)