Dead Man in a Ditch

 Dead Man in a Ditch by Luke Arnold, 416 pages.

This is book two of the Fetch Phillips archives and things have not gotten much better for our friend Fetch. The lights are still out, the magic is still gone, and people are still dying slow deaths without it. So when an industrialist shows up looking an awful lot like he was killed by magic, people get pretty excited. And since Fetch has accidentally gotten a reputation as the guy who's investigating the magic coming back he finds himself right in the middle of the mess. 

This was a really twisty mystery and I enjoyed it. There were multiple times in the first hundred chapters or so when I thought the case was solved and wasn't sure what the rest of the book was going to do, only to find out that the solution we were just given was practically nothing in the grand scheme of things. I really like this setting, and I feel like this book dug deeper into the details of how it works, which was also cool. This was a strong sequel, and I'm looking forward to reading the next one.