Ian Cameron Esslemont’s debut "Night of Knives" will be released in the UK on the 5th May 2008. The novel will be set in the same world as Steven Erikson’s Malazan Books of the Fallen, Esslemont is the co-creator of this world.

Esslemont is, like Erikson, a Canadian and there is a second book in the pipeline called Return of the Crimson Guard and this will be published in August 2008.

Here is a snippet from the Transworld UK press release

It gave the Empire its name, but the tiny island and city of Malaz is now a sleepy, seedy back-water port. However, tonight things are a little different. Tonight its residents are bustling about, barring doors and shuttering windows. Because tonight a once-in-a-generation Shadow Moon is due and threatens the good citizens of Malaz with demon hounds and other, darker, beings…

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