Mosca Mye, educated ragamuffin, Eponymous Clent, cunning rogue, and Saracen, goose, cast out of one city after causing disturbances and revolutions, find their way into another, with even more calamitous results. The city of Toll has a day face and a night face, and they are kept strictly apart, but there are kidnappings afoot, and Mosca and Clent are right in the middle of them, and before long, Mosca is heartily sick of both Toll-By-Day and Toll-By-Night, an ingeniously horrible system of repression and control and exploitation. But what can a girl, a con-man and goose do against the fearsome might of the jinglers?

A well-conceived and ingenious fantasy that mixes dark elements with comic wit and a likable protagonist and a well-rounded menagerie of supporting or opposite-of-supporting characters. I really hope there's another one of these at some point.