The Holver Alley Crew

The Holver Alley Crew is a 2017 novel by Marshall Ryan Maresca, and is the first novel in the Streets of Maradaine series, as well as the fifth released overall Maradaine Sequence.

Holver Alley is in the North Seleth neighborhood of Maradaine. The events in the novel occur before those in An Import of Intrigue, as the "big fire in North Seleth" is referenced. The risk of fire is foreshadowed in A Murder of Mages, when Tal Serrick refers to changes in fire brigade schedules that leave some "nights here there's no Brigade at all in Seleth."

Description
The Rynax brothers had gone legit after Asti Rynax's service in Druth Intelligence had shattered his nerves, and marriage and fatherhood convinced Verci Rynax to leave his life of thievery. They settled back in their old neighborhood in West Maradaine and bought themselves a shop, eager for a simple, honest life.

Then the Holver Alley Fire incinerated their plans. With no home, no shop, and no honest income--and saddled with a looming debt--they fall back on their old skills and old friends.

With a crew of other fire victims, Asti and Verci plan a simple carriage heist, but the job spirals out of control as they learn that the fire was no accident. Lives in Holver Alley were destroyed out of a sadistic scheme to buy the land. Smoldering for revenge, burdened with Asti's crumbling sanity, the brothers and their crew of amateurs and washouts swear to take down those responsible for the fire, no matter the cost.

Loose Threads
Who really wants the land along Holver Alley?

What is the importance of the jade statue?

Characters
The "Holver Alley Crew"
 * Asti Rynax
 * Verci Rynax
 * Helene Kesser
 * Julien Kesser
 * Kennith Rill
 * Mila Kendish

Kimber
 * Almer Cort
 * Winthym Greenfield
 * Pilsen Gin

Josie “The Old Lady” Holt

Mersh

Enanger “Nange” Lesk

Ren Poller

Kel Essin

Tal Serrick

Kehjhaz Nafath

Tyne Emporium Fire Brigade Chief Holm Yenner
 * Mendel Tyne
 * Miles Kinter
 * Ecrain

Heston Chell

Jared Scall