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The Herald's Silence: A Maya Pok-ta-Pok Mystery

The Herald's Silence: A Maya Pok-ta-Pok Mystery

Korran, Daniel

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Series: The Maya Pok-Ta-Pok Mysteries, Book 3

Ancient History General

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ISBN13: 9798242680470
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the city's herald loses his voice, the ballcourt does not simply go quiet. It becomes vulnerable.

In this third instalment of the Maya Pok ta Pok Mysteries series, it is tournament day in Ch'altun, and a silence is spreading faster than any chant. Notices appear with seals that look too clean. Phrases move through the benches as if spoken by one mouth.

Ix Ch'elel, investigator and keeper of ritual precision, is once again called upon to read what others miss. Drawing on her discipline and insight, she starts to see the pattern beneath the fog. Someone is not merely fixing outcomes. They are fixing attention.

With the weary herald Ch'ok forced to speak in gesture, Ix follows a trail of wax, blue dye, and timed rumor from the posting wall to the archive corridor, where memory itself becomes a target. In a city where ceremony is survival, the question is not only who forged authority, but how easily a crowd can be steered when the voice it trusts is absent.

Set in a vividly realized Maya metropolis where sport, record keeping, and ritual law collide, The Herald's Silence is both a detective story and a meditation on witness, language, and the fragile civic craft of honesty.

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