Alex Craft, Grave Witch pays a stunningly high price for
the
working of her gift; each foray into the world of the dead
leaves her blind. It is becoming more profound with each
use
and lasting longer as well. Even her newly discovered Fae
blood does not protect her. Unfortunately circumstances
aren't allowing her enough time to recover between the
times
her gift is needed.
After rescuing her former college roommate, Rianna from
servitude she hopes to help her by rekindling a dream they
shared soon after they met; they have started a new
detective agency called Tongues for the Dead. Their first
case practically falls into their lap as a body plummets
onto a nearby car roof. Their client hopes to prove her
husband was murdered, rather than committing suicide. The
ghost of the dead man insists his last memory before his
death was of sitting in a pub, three days before his plunge.
As Alex and Rianna (and Roy, a persistent ghost) begin to
research the circumstances Alex's focus is split between
the
needs of the case and the pressing need to make a decision
regarding which Fae court to align with, or if she should
remain independent.
It doesn't help that the two men in her life; Falin, a Fae
equivalent of a Fed and Death, a soul collector who is her
oldest and closest friend are cut off from any friendly
contact with her.
As they unravel the path of the ghost's last three days
alive they discover dark tendrils reaching back to other
puzzling deaths, how long has this hidden threat existed,
and who caused it?
GRAVE MEMORY, the third in the Alex Craft series is
as
meaty and entertaining as the others. Kalayna Price's
world,
set 70 years after magic and the other planes were revealed
to the world is a strongly built framework for the
challenges her characters face. All her characters and
their
situations are interesting, especially Alex's girl friends
and the challenges Alex's situation has brought to their
lives. I hope there will be many more books to follow.
When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to
listen…
As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead—an
ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases,
that cost is compounding. But her magic isn’t the only thing
causing havoc in her life. While she’s always been on
friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently
become a whole lot more close and personal. Then there’s her
sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the
glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best
friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in
Faerie.
But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a
mysterious suicide occurs in Nekros City and Alex is hired
to investigate. The shade she raises has no memory of the
days leading up to his brutal ending, so despite the very
public apparent suicide, this is murder. But what kind of
magic can overcome the human will to survive? And why does
the shade lack the memory of his death? Searching for the
answer might mean Alex won’t have a life to remember at all…
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