num_pages: 336
description: Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache an appreciation for craft cocktails  and a most unique magical talent. He can cast spells with magically enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect our world from rogue minions of various pantheons especially the Fae.But he is also cursed. Anyone who hears his voice will begin to feel an inexplicable hatred for Al so he can only communicate through the written word or speech apps. And his apprentices keep dying in peculiar freak accidents. As his personal life crumbles around him he devotes his life to his work all the while trying to crack the secret of his curse.But when his latest apprentice Gordie turns up dead in his Glasgow flat Al discovers evidence that Gordie was living a secret life of crime. Now Al is forced to play detective  while avoiding actual detectives who are wondering why death seems to always follow Al. Investigating his apprentices death will take him through Scotlands magical underworld and hell need the help of a mischievous hobgoblin if hes to survive.
language: English
title: Ink & Sigil
publisher: Del Rey