Fantasy Mystery
Julian Herschel
Perfect villages. Manor-house secrets. A party of misfits called the Rusty Tankards.
Julian Herschel writes fantasy-mystery adventures centered on isolated places that seem to work too well, until the cracks show.
Series
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Commonly Known as the Rusty Tankards
A fantasy mystery series where every location works too perfectly, and every solution costs something.
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Godborn
A divine progression series where a dead social worker is offered godhood — and discovers that divinity runs on belief, bureaucracy, and impossible choices.
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Books
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The Village That Watches
Book 1A comedic fantasy about a village that's too perfect — where everyone is kind, everyone is calm, and no one ever leaves. The Rusty Tankards are about to find out why.
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Upcoming
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Godborn
Coming SoonA divine progression fantasy — Anthony Rivera dies in a Minneapolis halfway house and wakes up with an offer: become a god, or reincarnate and forget. He chooses godhood. Now he must build a religion from scratch in a system where belief is currency and running out of followers means erasure.
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The Case of the Wrong Order
Coming SoonA comedic fantasy locked-room mystery — a smudged invitation sends the Rusty Tankards into a storm-locked manor where every suspect is lying, every clue points the wrong way, and the detective is a goat.
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