Dead Man’s Detective
Rachel Graves
Paranormal Romance
All ex-army witch Elisabeth Hicks wants for her twenty-fourth birthday is to keep the small-town gossips from staring at her artificial limbs. Instead, she’s pushed into helping an army buddy on an illegal job for the scariest vampire in town. Her magic tells her the vampire is lying but it’s too late to walk away. Things go sideways, and her first date in years ends when she finds her friend’s dead body. The body disappears from the morgue, and a deadly, magical, necklace winds up in her lap all before she gets to her birthday cake. Now a sexy master vampire will kill her if she doesn’t use magic to find the woman he loves, and the police refuse to investigate the murder. It’s up to Elisabeth to protect her family, solve the mystery, and survive long enough to go on a second date.
Uncaged Review: Elisabeth is ex-military and home with her family, working odd jobs for some cash. When another ex-military friend tells her about a job he was offered, she knows it’s a bad job and tries to talk him out of it. Elisabeth has some magic as she’s a spirit witch, she can see the dead and she can feel what others are feeling with touch. When Douglas is found dead after his “job,” Elisabeth is hell-bent on getting justice for her friend. During this time, she meets Gina’s boss, Ted, whom everyone thinks is “gay,” even though she knows better. Striking up a romance with Ted, even though her family only thinks it’s friendship. But as Elisabeth uncovers more about Douglas’ death, she gets involved with the very powerful vampire that hired him.
This book started out a bit slowly, but still interesting, and it really got moving along through the back half of the book. There is a lot going on in this book, and it’s a good start to a new series and this is different from most urban fantasy books I’ve read. The sex scenes might have been a tad too long, but they were easy to skim over if you are in a hurry to get on with the story. This book ended in a way that sets up well for the next in the series, but not a cliffhanger. All-in-all, I would definitely move on with this series.
Reviewed by Cyrene
4 Stars
