If following Thara Celehar through Amalo as he pieces together deaths—from identifying the drowned woman to unmasking the rot behind the opera-house scandal—kept you riveted, you'll love how Winter's Orbit marries a sensitive relationship with a high-stakes investigation. Like Thara’s quiet persistence, Kiem and Jainan must sift truth from rumor and power plays while pursuing a suspicious death at the heart of an empire, with duty and kindness guiding every step.

If what you loved was staying close to Thara in Amalo—sharing tea, small mercies, and solemn duties between trips to the mortuary and the graveyard ghoul—Paladin’s Grace offers the same intimate, street-level warmth. Stephen and Grace are fundamentally decent people navigating assassins, conspiracies, and temple politics with the same everyday gentleness and moral steadiness that make Thara’s rounds so compelling.

If you delighted in the finely wrought etiquette of Amalo’s temples and magistracies—the way titles, forms of address, and religious duties frame Thara Celehar’s every action—The Curse of Chalion delivers that same tactile richness. Like Thara’s petitions and hearings, Cazaril’s careful navigation of court ranks and divine obligations turns protocol into palpable stakes, with miracles and bureaucracy braided as tightly as oaths.

If Thara’s vocation—using his office as Witness for the Dead to serve the vulnerable, even when confronting a cemetery horror or prying into a noble’s secrets—moved you, The Hands of the Emperor centers that same ethic. Cliopher’s power is paperwork and persuasion, and like Thara, he turns compassion and procedure into real change, proving that kindness and competence can be world-shaping.

If the courtly cadence and graceful diction of The Witness for the Dead enchanted you—the way Thara’s measured voice renders both a ghoul in the graveyard and a quarrel over a will with equal, shimmering gravity—McKillip’s prose will feel like coming home. Sybel’s gift, like Thara’s, forces hard choices about how power should be used, and the language makes every choice gleam.