Flint in the Bones

Winner of Best Novel at The Selfies 2026. Semi-finalist in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off.

Book one of the Norwich Map Runners.

Some cities have a history. Norwich has several, and they don’t all stay where you left them.

Detective Eliza “Bish” Barnaby has spent a long time not thinking about the city she grew up in — the one where the streets occasionally open onto the wrong century, and where the people who know how to walk between them would rather nobody found out.

Then a body turns up, and the answers are all on the other side of a map she was told never to read.

Wry, fast and full of a Norwich that never quite settles into one shape, Flint in the Bones introduces a detective with a talent she can’t admit to, a Georgian gentleman a long way from home, and a city that has never entirely agreed to stay in the present.

The first book in the Norwich Map Runners series by Eva St John. Followed by Fire in the Flint.