Malory

Sci-Fi, LitRPG & Progression Fantasy

Winner of the 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award

Death of a Curator cover — The Soar Chronicles Book 2 by Malory
The Soar Chronicles · Book 2

Death of a Curator

Book 2 of The Soar Chronicles. A second body. A different god. Same investigator, still Classless, still owed money.

LitRPG Hardboiled Mystery Detective
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About the Book

Death of a Curator picks up the investigator from Murder in the Temple a few months on. The reputation is forming. So is the list of people who’d rather he wasn’t. When a curator at one of Soar’s smaller temples turns up dead in a way that doesn’t fit any of the obvious gods, the case lands on the protagonist’s desk because no one with a Class wants to touch it.

The hardboiled rhythm of Book 1 carries forward, but the city’s grown. Different temples, different leverage, different prices for asking questions. The System still presses; the investigator still pushes back; and Soar keeps doing what Soar does.

Audiobook performed by Neil Hellegers.

For Readers Who…

read Murder in the Temple and want more of the same voice — the dry first-person narration, the noir grammar applied to a LitRPG city.

This is Book 2 of The Soar Chronicles. The series continues with The Cuckoo's Last Call.
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