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Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo writes fantasy fiction, including the Singing Hills Cycle. The Judgment of Needles is the eighth linked novella featuring Cleric Chih.
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The Judgment of Needles
A celebration of the Empress of Salt and Fortune brings Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant to a palace where expensive robes preserve stories that official history has overlooked. An embroidered detail leads Chih toward an attempted assassination and the women whose lives were shaped by the court. The eighth Singing Hills novella can be read independently, offering a compact mystery about power, memory and the evidence left in everyday objects.