In novels where a crime is committed in a fantasy realm, the person investigating said crime is often a magic user with a bit of noir to their name. And while that’s also the case with Daniel M. Ford’s adventure fantasy novel The Warden (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), he’s taking a somewhat different approach by having said magic user not be a witch or wizard but a necromancer, and not be very noir, either. In the following email interview, Ford discusses what influenced and inspired this magical mystery.