Fraenk Neversleep is a sharp-tongued, hard-boiled human investigator in a rich, vibrant city of elves. After the seemingly random killing of his old friend, Fraenk is determined to get justice in a society that rarely has any for its second-class citizens. His relentless search for answers takes him through the city's seedy underbelly and up to the heights of the Monarch's Palace. Along the way, he clashes with an elvish crime family and their rival spymaster, forms a tenuous alliance with an entrancing thief, and clashes with dangerous warlock who can summon shadowy creatures from the underrealm-all of them vying for a wildly powerful artifact known as The Mind Thief.Can Fraenk uncover its secrets in time to stop a dark conspiracy that threatens to destroy the city?Imagine if Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe was an investigator in the world of Tolkien. The Neversleep Scrolls, is a genre-bending crime fiction fantasy that keeps you guessing from start to finish. The Mind Thief Murders is the first book in a planned series from author Phil Walton.