The day Sacha found out he could see witches was the worst day of his
life . . .
Being an Inquisitor is no job for a nice Jewish boy. But when the police
learn that Sacha Kessler can see witches, he's apprenticed to the
department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf. Their mission is to stop
magical crime. And New York at the beginning of the twentieth century is
a magical melting pot where each ethnic group has its own brand of
homegrown witchcraft, and magical gangs rule the streets from Hell's
Kitchen to Chinatown.
Soon Sacha has teamed up with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, daughter of
one of the city's richest Wall Street Wizards--and a spoiled snob, if
you ask Sacha. Their first case is to find out who's trying to kill
Thomas Edison.
Edison has invented a mechanical witch detector that could unleash the
worst witch-hunt in American history. Every magician in town has a
motive to kill him. But as the investigation unfolds, all the clues lead
back to the Lower East Side. And Sacha soon realizes that his own family
could be accused of murder!