In the Absence of Absalon

<p><strong>Longlisted for the 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize</strong></p><p><em>In the Absence of Absalon</em> revolves around an unnamed investigator, a set of keys and a townhouse. He is investigating a series of disappearances: of his colleague, Marguerite; of Harold Absalon, the Mayor's transport advisor, whose disappearance Marguerite had been investigating prior to his own disappearance; of Richard Knox, the owner of the townhouse, who had fa