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L. E. Bendon was born in 1983 and wishes Terry Pratchett were still not dead.

He had built quite a satisfying musician’s life for himself up until 2020 when it was suddenly on hold, for reasons we can all remember, and so he put the compulsory free time to use. Thus began his fiction output with the detective series – The Weapon and the Fruit. This is his first foray outside of that series and of the whole crime/mystery genre, but he promises there is plenty more of Lance Pomegranate, and plenty more fantasy still to come.

L.E. Bendon is from London, living in South India, where most people know him as a saxophonist who spends an awful lot of his spare time writing novels on his laptop in cafés. Prior to his debut novel in 2025 all of his pub ...more

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Average rating: 4.31 · 48 ratings · 48 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Weapon and the Fruit: Any Body Can Murder (The Weapon and the Fruit, #2) 4.48 avg rating — 23 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weapon and the Fruit: Four and Twenty Blackboards (The Weapon and the Fruit, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dungeon Campaign for Animal Rites (Melogana, #1) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weapon and the Fruit: Hipsters of Teddington Lock (The Weapon and the Fruit, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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