"A new paranormal series featuring a woman who investigates mystical crimes!"
Reviewed by Rachael Dimond
Posted July 18, 2008
Romance Paranormal | Fantasy Urban
Tess Corday is twenty four years old and works as a junior
employee for the Mystical Crime lab unit of CORE in
Vancouver, Canada. Tess' job as an Occult Special
Investigator (OSI) is to investigate the mystical cases
involving vampires and demons. She is also a mage --half
human and half demon, which leaves Tess with some powers to
assist her while solving crimes. Tess's best friend Derek also works for CORE but as a
telepath using his abilities to read the last thoughts of
the victims at crime scenes. Tess and Derek's latest case is that of a dead male vampire
found in an alley. There is no blood or any defensive
wounds on the vampire or at the crime scene. But in the
vamp's pocket is an address that leads them to the home of
a thirteen year old girl named Mia Polanski. Tess has no idea how Mia is related to the dead vamp and
how the pieces fit together. But it's the girl's
resemblance to someone Tess knew long ago that makes this
case a tough one for her. Things get personal and Tess
will do whatever it takes to make sure Mia is kept safe. A necromancer named Lucian Agrado tries to assist Tess with
her case but she is weary of trusting him. Tess starts to
have dreams about Lucian, her past and the case she is
currently working on. Can the necromancer be trusted or is
he bad news? When the case turns deadly, Tess' boss Marcus orders her to
take a leave of absence. But Tess is in too deep to just
walk away from everything. Can Tess find out who killed
the vampire and why? Will Tess' past haunt her to the
point where she isn't able to concentrate on her current
case? Will Tess, Derek, and Mia make it out of this alive? NIGHT CHILD is a dark urban fantasy told in first person
point of view by the main character Tess Corday. This is
the first book in a new series and I saw a lot of promise
with this installment. The characters are intelligent and
good people despite being half demon. The action sequences were brutal and exciting to read
about. Tess appears to be a very complex character with a
dark and haunted past that she has yet to deal with.
Hopefully we can learn more about Tess and her life before
becoming an investigator in the next book.
SUMMARY
Enter the night world of the OSI... OCCULT SPECIAL
INVESTIGATOR
Tess Corday, Occult Special
Investigator for Vancouver’s Mystical Crime Lab, is used to
seeing dead vampires. But there’s nothing ordinary about
this case. Not the lab results on the cause of death. Not
the teenage girl living at the address found in the vamp’s
pocket, who may well be in thrall to a demon. And certainly
not Lucian Agrado, the necromancer who is liaison to the
vampire community. Agrado is supposed to be part of the
solution, but Tess suspects he might be part of the
problem.
Soon she finds herself in the middle of a
paranormal conspiracy that will change her life forever—and
possibly end it.
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