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Dead Gods Tell No Tales: Ur Noir Book I
Paperback
Series: Ur Noir, Book 1
FantasyMystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 26 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The moon god's calendar has been stolen. Without it, heaven loses track of time - and the empire loses its mind.
Nin-Gal, High Priestess of Nanna, knows the gods are real. She has spoken with them. She has felt their presence in the sacred chambers of Ur's great ziggurat. When the Lunar Calendar vanishes seven days before the New Moon Festival, she knows this is not merely theft - it is a declaration of war against the divine order itself.
Enlil-Bani, temple scribe, knows the gods are useful. He has watched priests lie, merchants bribe, and kings rewrite history onto clay tablets that no one will question. When he is dragged into the investigation, he knows this is not a divine mystery - it is a very human crime, committed by someone who understood exactly what they were taking.
They have seven days. They despise each other. They are the only hope Ur has.
Dead Gods Tell No Tales is ancient Mesopotamia filtered through noir - a detective story set in the cradle of civilization, where the evidence is written in cuneiform, the suspects include a king, and the question beneath the crime is the oldest one there is: what happens to a people when they stop believing in their gods?
For readers of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham.
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