The Speculum Fire

When anchored powder-barges in the fog-draped harbor of Ha'amene begin detonating without fire or smoke, leaving shattered victims embedded with fine mirror fragments, a meticulous beacon lens-grinder, a quirky powder-mill cooper, and a sharp-eyed harbor signal-officer must track down an optical sniper before the city's main magazine is ignited. As the military governor wrongfully targets civilian fishing sloops, Kiri'ata, Paora, and Teuira race against the sun to calculate the true angles of death in a fair-play mystery bound by the strict laws of focal distortion and solar geometry.