A Drop of Corruption

A Drop of Corruption is the second novel in Robert Jackson Bennett's Shadow of the Leviathan series, following The Tainted Cup.

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the edge of the Empire's reach, a Treasury officer disappears without a trace from inside a heavily guarded tower — its door and windows locked from the inside. The Empire summons its most brilliant and unconventional investigator, Ana Dolabra, to solve the impossible case, with her chronically exhausted assistant Dinios Kol once again serving as her eyes and ears in the field.

As Ana and Din work the case, they uncover a conspiracy reaching into the Empire's administration of its outer cantons — a mystery that widens far beyond a single locked room.