The Mortal Word

The Mortal Word by Genevieve Cogman, 433 pages

In the fifth book of her Invisible Library series, Cogman sends Librarian (read: spy) Irene Winters and her Sherlock-esque friend Peregrine Vale into a world stuck in 1890s Paris. The chaotic Fae and orderly dragons are there to negotiate a peace treaty — with the help of the neutral Library, of course — when the right-hand man of one of the dragon leaders is murdered. Irene and Vale must determine who's responsible without derailing the peace talks, a task made infinitely more difficult in the presence of an irritable weather-changing dragon and several powerful Fae, one of whom is legendary for her creative methods of killing anyone who looks at her sideways. All in all, it's another fun chapter in Irene's story, and I will keep reading these until the cows come home.