Livre d'Or

King and Joker is definitely one of those books where the virtues of the whole are so distinct from the sum of the elements that it's not really worth while trying to describe it ahead of time. *hug* I was pretty sure you'd like it, and that I couldn't really capture what about it was worthwhile in my own words.

Everything I've read of Dickinson's has been at least very good, though they are not all at the level of King and Joker. There is a later novel with some of the same characters, though not directly related enough for me to think of it as a sequel per se, called Skeleton in Waiting; it's a good book but not as good as K and J.