Buying Options

Read for Free

OR

Print List Price:	$12.99
Kindle Price:	$4.99 Save $8.00 (62%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

Flames Over Frosthelm (Inquisitors' Guild Book 1) by [Dave Dobson]

Follow the Author

David Dobson

Flames Over Frosthelm (Inquisitors' Guild Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Dave Dobson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

74 ratings

Book 1 of 3: Inquisitors' Guild

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$4.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$12.99

—

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles $4.99 to buy
Paperback
$12.99

2 New from $12.99

An Investigation Gone Awry
Sometimes, your case takes a left turn. Or three or four. Marten Mingenstern and Boog Eggstrom are provisional inspectors, fresh out of Inquisitor’s Guild training and eager to prove themselves. Assigned the mundane task of tracking down stolen jewels, they instead uncover a mysterious cult set on destroying the city. After a thief explodes, they earn the enmity of a vicious noble, the Chief Inquisitor gets bought off and goes rogue, they are seized by barbarians, and they are sentenced to death at least a couple of times. In a final, frantic race with prophecy, they face ruthless fanatics, a city turned against them, and terrible forces long buried.

Flames Over Frosthelm is the first novel about the Inquisitor's Guild, the investigative arm of the government of Frosthelm, a medieval city-state where criminals thrive, nobles scheme, and dark secrets lurk. Expect intrigue, mystery, swordplay, adventure, politics, romance, and the strong bonds of friendship. And a little magic along the way. Described as Princess Bride meets CSI, this new novel is a tale of classic adventure with a healthy dose of humor.

If the description above was too much, you might prefer this

TLDR Summary Haiku

Young inspectors flail
Against a rising darkness.
Fighting, jokes, and more.

About the Book

Flames over Frosthelm is a full stand-alone novel clocking in at just over 120,000 words. Beginning, middle, and end, and no waiting for sequels to find out how the adventure ends (hear that, George R.R.?). There is swordplay, violence, death, and some romance, but the book does not include anything terribly hardcore. Think PG13 or Harry Potter and you're probably in the right place.

Author's Note

Ever since I started reading the Oz books and Andrew Lang's fairy tale compendia in elementary school, I have loved fantasy. As I grew as a reader, I branched out into heroic and epic fantasy, starting with tales of heros like Conan and John Carter, set in places like Middle Earth and Witchworld. I also adored comedic fantasy, from Terry Pratchett to Neil Gaiman to a host of others, and my favorite tales were those where young heroes and heroines grew (or were forced) to play a role beyond their station, in many cases learning on the fly and making it up as they went along.

There are so many great authors working now trying out new ideas, pushing the fantasy genre in interesting new directions (some of them full of sparkly vampires or brooding antiheroes with anime hair). Despite all that innovation, it is hard for me to resist the draw of the classics. In this book, I've tried to weave together many of my favorite threads from the books of my childhood, to write the kind of book I have always loved reading, both at 13 and at 49. If I've succeeded, this story should provide a fun mix of humor and adventure, an introduction to a new world and a few new cultures, with derring-do and jokes along with some solid emotional touches, against a backdrop of a classic fantasy city, bustling with taverns, markets, nobles, politics, religions, thieves, and warriors.

There's magic, but it's limited to rare wizards, scholars, and artifacts, not pervasive, and it's not well understood. Everybody you meet is a human with human goals - no elves, dwarves, dragons, trolls, or Klingons. Although moral complexity is fascinating, and even the best people are not always their best selves, in general I like my good guys good, my bad guys bad, and the stakes high. I hope you do too.

Please enjoy Flames Over Frosthelm.

Length: 400 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled

Book 1 of 3 in Inquisitors' Guild

Books In This Series (3 Books)

Complete Series

Inquisitors' Guild

Kindle Edition

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

1
Flames Over Frosthelm (Inquisitors' Guild Book 1)

(74)

Kindle Edition

$4.99
2
The Outcast Crown (Inquisitors' Guild Book 2)

(6)

Kindle Edition

$4.99
3
Traitors Unseen (Inquisitors' Guild Book 3)

(2)

Kindle Edition

$1.99

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Blue Donahue

3

Kindle Edition
$3.99
Pamela Ann

75

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Morgan Delaney

38

Kindle Edition
$0.00
T.K. Eldridge

66

Kindle Edition
$0.00
Anastasia Wilde

139

Kindle Edition
$2.99
John Rhea

23

Kindle Edition
$3.99

Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

A native of Ames, Iowa, Dave loves writing, reading,boardgames, computer games, improv comedy, pinball, pizza, barbarian movies,and the cheaper end of the Taco Bell menu. Also, his wife and kids.

Dave is the author of Snood, Snoodoku, Snood Towers, and other computer games. He first publishedSnood in 1996, and it became one of the most popular shareware games of theearly Internet. His most recent games are Scryptix andPolaric (coming soon). He also designs and publishes boardgames though hiscompany, Plankton Games. You can see his games at the PlanktonGames.com website.

Dave teaches geology, environmental studies, andcomputer programming at Guilford College, and he does improv comedy every week at the Idiot Box in Greensboro, North Carolina. He's also played the world'slargest tuba in concert. Not that that is relevant, but it's still kinda cool.

Flames overFrosthelm is Dave's first novel.

Product details

File size : 2074 KB
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 400 pages
Publication date : June 11, 2019
Language: : English
ASIN : B07T12STNY
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #355,282 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,164 in New Adult & College Fantasy (Books)
- #1,182 in Humorous Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #1,728 in New Adult & College Fantasy (Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews:
74 ratings

Customer reviews

5 star		70%
4 star		24%
3 star		4%
2 star		2%
1 star 0% (0%)		0%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Frost

Entertains first to last

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2020

Verified Purchase

Review My thanks to the author and to Goodreads for a free copy of the book to read and review.
“Flames over Frosthelm” by Dave Dobson is best described as a good entertainment of a book. Placed in the epic fantasy category, it is certainly not dark and foreboding and the primary character Marten Mingenstern, is likeable rather than bloodthirsty. Add to that the sense of humor that comes through as the tale unfolds. Not that it is a giddy YA aimed “Romancing an Elf” with cute, fuzzy companions, not at all. The plot that begins with that bar fight, expands into a fight with a powerfully evil being.
As the book begins, Marten, and his Provisional ( newly out of cop school) Inquisitor ( police detective) partner Beauregard ” Boog” Eggstrom are following the investigation of the robbery of jewels of a Lady the Realm. The clues led to their staking out a tavern watching a suspected thief, nicknamed ”ShortSword” ( use your imagination what that refers to) make a nuisance of himself and spending money he should not have. The action begins as a woman enters and approaches Shortsword. They begin arguing about an amulet. As our heroes intervene, there is a flash of light. The cloaked woman has run off, and Marten and Boog lie stunned on the floor between a grisly pile of what used to be the thief and the amulet.
That tale of an arrest gone wrong begins a tale in which our two Iquisitors find themselves enmeshed in a plot that will not only endanger their lives, but also threaten the existence of Frosthelm. It seems that an ambitious nobleman named Marron is scheming to usurp the throne to take power into his own hands, and the magic of the amulet is a tool to that end. Soon Marten and Boog find themselves in dangers that were definitely not in the Inquisitors handbook.
Mr.Dobson, the author worked long and hard to being his book to life and he did an excellent job. Marten is an appealing character who grows throughout the book, changing from a carefree young cop into a man who has literally faced demons. He has survived the opening of the gates of hell, while seeing friends, mentors and comrades fall. The amulet is the key, he learns, and the key, as all keys, both closes and opens doors, sometimes doing both at the same time.
Summary: a very entertaining story, well written and very engrossing. The book is complete in this one volume. There is nothing in it to offend and trigger the sensibilities, in my opinion.

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

muffiemae

Wonderful book!

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019

Verified Purchase

I'll not repeat the positive reviews given by others. Just a short way into the book, I was sure I'd rate it 5 stars. The author had excellent prose and command of the English language. But then...

The author claims he hired a professional editor for this book. If so, he was ripped off. Editors are responsible for checking facts, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. There were several errors in the book, but the most irksome was the many, MANY inappropriate uses of commas. This drives me nuts! It's like putting a stop sign in the middle of a busy freeway.

Some other errors in the book:

The use of "I" as the object in a sentence. A couple of examples are "with Boog and I" and "I saw Clarice and I "

She fell back, catching HIMSELF with her left hand...I think I slept AT several times.

Expertly-placed fist...(The ly ending with adverbs signals to the reader that the next word will be another modifier, not a noun.)

We have to lay low... (in another instance, "to lie low" was used correctly.)

..."as we two..." should be "as us two." ( "Us" is an object pronoun, and "we" is a subject pronoun.)

There were instances of incorrect uses of dashes and hyphens.

At one point, it was said that seven jets of water shot twenty feet in the air...how could this be when there was no electricity?

...the sun moved along in its path through the sky... (The earth orbits the sun, not the other way around.)

Nevertheless, this is a wonderful book. The author has a vivid imagination, and I will read more books by him without hesitation. I do hope he finds a competent editor for the next one.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Kindle Customer

A Very Entertaining Book

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2019

Verified Purchase

This Is a stand alone story.
I hope the author comes up with more.
There is humor, good character development, and a interesting story line.
Five stars and I hope to see more from this author.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Avid Reader

Great book!

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2019

Verified Purchase

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It has realistic loveable characters, a fast !moving plot that has a lot of humor and action without lots of graphic sex, suitable for most readers. It's a complete story on its own without the need of a sequel, but with room for one. I hate cliff hangers! Hopefully wont take 14 years for #2 !

5 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Marc Vun Kannon

A quick fun read with lots of intrigue

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019

Verified Purchase

I read a description of this book on Facebook - Princess Bride meets CSI - and knew I had to read it. A pair of rookie Inquisitors are assigned a simple robbery case to deal with, and quickly get in over their heads. Fortunately Marten has what it takes to be a real detective and Boog has what it takes to keep Marten alive. Buddies, betrayals, a nicely understated bit of romance, and a case that they barely manage to stay on top of as it rolls along, in a story told with some excellently whimsical tones to soften the harsher notes. A little too convenient is a few places, where Marten couldn't deduce his way to the next step, but some unexpectedly valorous bits more than make up for it. Hopefully there will be more.

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment