The Improbable We Can Do Today by Jon Dixon

A collection of cosy fantasy mystery stories about resilience, ingenuity, love, belonging, and gentle justice. In the ancient, rain-drenched streets of Draffe, where temple bells mark the hours and secrets lie behind every door, the most sought-after researcher, information-broker, and investigator is a disabled ex-thief who can’t raise a hand or take a step. Meriva Secaret was once the very best of thieves. Until she lost her limbs. Now, with her retired mercenary partner, Custos, she makes her living finding what was lost, fixing injustices, outwitting the powerful… and still occasionally stealing just the right thing from just the wrong person. Her speciality is small problems with big consequences, puzzles and predicaments whose solutions require observation, ingenuity, and, above all, the ability to see people as they really are. Meriva is very good at seeing people. Perhaps because those people all too often don’t see the real her, but only what she no longer has. What she does have is a mind like a lock-pick, an ex-thief’s instincts, and attitude to spare. Plus a partner who loves her as she really is, and an absolute determination to live life on her own terms. Told from the perspective of a disabled protagonist who is capable, complex, and central to her own narrative, these whimsical, warm and often wryly funny stories invite you into the fiercely kind-hearted world she creates around herself, and will appeal to readers who enjoy small-scale, character-driven fantasy where the stakes are personal rather than world-ending, and where kindness always matters.

New Adult • Fantasy/Cozy, Low, Mundane, and Slice of Life • Diversity Representation/Disability