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The Third Estate: Devil's Tango by Debbie Berlin is a razor-sharp espionage thriller of assassins, ciphers, and lethal secrets

She is twenty-two years old and both her hands are black to the fingertips. In her country, sin does not stay private — it surfaces in the veins as a rot that climbs, then maddens, then kills. She has been killing for the Prophet for three years, and her skin has kept the receipts.

A dying serial killer agrees to be interviewed for a streaming docuseries and says, on camera, that he murdered four women in the summer of 2001. Not five. Four. In a small Washington town, two women who have not spoken in twenty-five years understand immediately what that means.

A concussed scholar falls on a wrapped sword, drags the blade free by accident, and a beautiful silver-eyed man appears and kills three bandits. The scholar's first question is whether he is addressing a seraph or an archangel. The man's first plan is to sit down by the road and wait for him to freeze.