Fantasy Mystery
Julian Herschel
Perfect villages. Manor-house secrets. A party of misfits commonly known as the Rusty Tankard.
Julian Herschel writes fantasy-mystery adventures centered on isolated places that seem to work too well, until the cracks show.
Series
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Commonly Known as the Rusty Tankard
A fantasy mystery-comedy series where the same party tackles systems that work too well, and every escape costs something.
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Dante Raises the Dead
A dark comedy fantasy series about an unemployable optimist, his catastrophically loyal friends, and the criminal enterprise they accidentally build around light necromancy.
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Books
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Dante wanted to be somebody. He should have been more specific. Now he owns the worst bar in Asura, employs a workforce that does not strictly qualify as living, and owes a debt that cannot be settled in money.
Adult comedy. The language is as questionable as the decisions.
Enter this world →Comic Fantasy Book 1 -
A blizzard seals the tavern. A giant kicks the door in, demanding to know who slept with his wife. The prime suspect volunteers to lead the investigation. Book 1—free on Barnes & Noble.
Enter this world →Fantasy Mystery Book 1 -
A comedic fantasy mystery about a village that is impossibly welcoming—where every path is swept, every smile is warm, and every invitation to stay feels a little too sincere.
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A grand dinner at Babbington Manor ends in an impossible locked-room murder. With every guest guarding a secret, Nyx and her misfit companions must untangle the evidence before the household chooses its own culprit.
Enter this world →Fantasy Mystery Book 3 -
In a hidden retirement community for defeated dark lords and mad scientists, a newly deposed emperor refuses to retire and triggers a crisis that could collapse the only place built to contain them.
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A leaking ship, a hold full of beauty supplies, and a noblewoman who stopped writing home. Nyx follows the missing letters to Venara, where looking the part seems to matter rather too much.
Enter this world →Fantasy Mystery Book 4 -
Recently ReleasedSix wiseguys. One medieval city. Zero questions asked. When six New York mobsters walk out of a Hell's Kitchen basement into a city of knights and guilds, they do not look for a way home. They look for the angles.
Adult comedy. The language is as questionable as the decisions.
Enter this world →Comic Fantasy