Malory

Sci-Fi, LitRPG & Progression Fantasy

Winner of the 2026 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award

The Cuckoo's Last Call cover — The Soar Chronicles Book 3 by Malory
The Soar Chronicles · Book 3

The Cuckoo's Last Call

Book 3 of The Soar Chronicles. The third case. The city’s patience is thinner. So is the investigator’s.

LitRPG Hardboiled Mystery Detective
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About the Book

The Cuckoo’s Last Call is where Soar starts to push back. The investigator who got away with awkward questions in Books 1 and 2 is now a known quantity, and Soar’s real power brokers have decided that’s a problem. The case at the centre is the kind that makes refusing the work look as dangerous as taking it.

Same hardboiled discipline, sharper teeth. The book extends the Soar Chronicles’ central question — who owes whom, and what gets settled when the System won’t arbitrate — into territory the first two books only hinted at.

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For Readers Who…

want the third instalment of the city, the investigator, and the running argument with Soar’s gods. Not the place to start.

Book 3 is the latest entry in The Soar Chronicles. Browse the full catalogue or the series overview for what comes before.
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Haven’t read Book 2? Start with Death of a Curator.
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