The Casebook Of Elisha Grey through all 8 of its volumes is told through the eyes, observation, voice, and feeling of a woman only half-Atlantean, who has come to Atlantis to study jurisprudence at the Temple of Learning.
Her father, an Ambassador from Atlantis stationed in Chungkuo, and her mother, a woman from a long tradition of hands-on-healers originating in the Caucasus, means that Kiara Ptolmai has neither lived in Atlantis nor is fully Atlantean -- her pale skin and red hair will be a dead giveaway on a continent where everyone has clay colored skin and dark hair.
Despite being an Ambassador's daughter, she still has limited financial resources when it comes to living in Atlantis, and so it happens that she agrees to share a two bedroom flat with Elisha Grey, a polymath scholar at the Temple of Learning -- and as she soon discovers, a consulting detective who assists the Atlantean constabulary, as well as private citizens, with solving various mysteries.
As she follows along in Elisha Grey's footsteps, chronicling his cases, she learns about Atlantean society. Unlike her own upbringing, people are raised as foster children in collective families, not by their own parents; that there is a subclass of multimorphs -- animal/human hybrids genetically designed for a variety of medical research needs -- and that the intellectual outweighs the intuitive in the culture. As a person who relies upon both, she will become a bridge between those Atlanteans who, like Elisha Grey, are enamored of their intellectual prowess, and other Atlanteans such as Kamay Pellay, a tenth generation Lemurian who is intuitive beyond even her comprehension.
Each story is told from a woman's point of view, and not just any woman: a woman intuitive to the core, a woman who is learning the logic of law in Atlantis, and an outsider who has to make people comfortable with her at every turn.
Photo: I don't know who took it, found it on Facebook years ago. If anyone recognizes it, please let me know and I will credit the photographer.
Her father, an Ambassador from Atlantis stationed in Chungkuo, and her mother, a woman from a long tradition of hands-on-healers originating in the Caucasus, means that Kiara Ptolmai has neither lived in Atlantis nor is fully Atlantean -- her pale skin and red hair will be a dead giveaway on a continent where everyone has clay colored skin and dark hair.
Despite being an Ambassador's daughter, she still has limited financial resources when it comes to living in Atlantis, and so it happens that she agrees to share a two bedroom flat with Elisha Grey, a polymath scholar at the Temple of Learning -- and as she soon discovers, a consulting detective who assists the Atlantean constabulary, as well as private citizens, with solving various mysteries.
As she follows along in Elisha Grey's footsteps, chronicling his cases, she learns about Atlantean society. Unlike her own upbringing, people are raised as foster children in collective families, not by their own parents; that there is a subclass of multimorphs -- animal/human hybrids genetically designed for a variety of medical research needs -- and that the intellectual outweighs the intuitive in the culture. As a person who relies upon both, she will become a bridge between those Atlanteans who, like Elisha Grey, are enamored of their intellectual prowess, and other Atlanteans such as Kamay Pellay, a tenth generation Lemurian who is intuitive beyond even her comprehension.
Each story is told from a woman's point of view, and not just any woman: a woman intuitive to the core, a woman who is learning the logic of law in Atlantis, and an outsider who has to make people comfortable with her at every turn.
Photo: I don't know who took it, found it on Facebook years ago. If anyone recognizes it, please let me know and I will credit the photographer.