PSA: New Penric and Desdemona _novel_

I pressed the wrong button using my kindle last night, and got recommendations rather than my library, which told me that Lois McMaster Bujold has finally written a Penric and Desdemona novel, "The Assassins of Thasalon" - hello, yes, mine now!

Sequentially it's currently the last in series, set two years on from Pen's encounter with plague in "The Physicians of Vilnoc". Pen's still court sorceror to Duke Jurgo, and is fortuitously on scene when someone tries to magically assassinate his brother-in-law Adelis - the theological issue here being that a sorceror can only kill once, the inevitable result being the Bastard ripping away their demon and leaving them incapable of magic.

A cunning trap catches the assassin when she tries again, but when Pen summons a saint of the Bastard to remove her demon pre-trial (because executing a sorceror just means their demon jumps to the next nearest person) things don't go entirely to plan, because clearly the Bastard has plans for everyone involved, including the demons. Which leaves Pen and Des responsible for a saint who just wants to sit by the riverside and fish, and a baby sorceror whose 5yo son is being held hostage to ensure her actions by the dominant figure in the snake-pit politics of the neighbouring Cedonian empire.