The Death of Knowledge: The Scolaris Chronicles · Book One, A Dystopian Mystery
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A new adult dystopian mystery from Lou Collins, for readers of The Hunger Games and Divergent.
In a city where beauty is outlawed, someone's still collecting it.
In the walled city of Scolaris, knowledge is scripture and beauty is a crime.
Quill has broken that second law her whole life, hoarding forbidden beauty wherever she spots it. She's a Defecto, a servant whose name buys her nothing above her station, born without the right to an education and unable to stop craving one anyway.
Then a scholar is found dead in the Great Library, and the man who raised her, the only family she has, is arrested for his murder.
To save him, Quill has to brave what no Defecto's ever survived. She has to ask the questions Defectos aren't allowed to ask. She traces a trail that reaches from the missing Defectos nobody bothered to search for, through the forbidden texts hidden on the Library's highest shelves, to a killer who collects the one thing Scolaris outlawed. Beauty, one body at a time.
The city calls it order. Quill's starting to suspect it's just another word for silence.
Book One of The Scolaris Chronicles. A dystopian mystery about who's allowed to be curious, and who pays for it.
Similar to books like: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
Keywords: dystopian, new adult dystopian, secondary world mystery, caste system, forbidden knowledge, library murder mystery, walled city, found family, disability representation, coming of age, price of freedom, power, politics, intrigue, cunning adversary, one of a kind heroine, suspense, action-packed, mystery, crime fiction, page turner, clever original plot, long held secrets, heartache of loss, taken out of ordinary life
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Lou Collins writes stories about worlds that trade freedom for the illusion of order, and the people who start asking the questions they're not supposed to ask. The Scolaris Chronicles grew out of a lifelong love of imagined worlds: His Dark Materials, the Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings. It also draws on a career practising law, which sharpened her eye for how systems fail the people inside them.
A wife and mother, she also writes the Chloe Essex cozy mysteries. When she isn't building walled cities or plotting a character's downfall, she can be found at the ballet, at the theatre, or waging a one-woman war against ironing.
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