Sylvie Lightner is running down a fairly typical missing
person's case when she finds her client's wife alongside
four more women of similar physical features beneath the
waters of a Florida swamp. Although Sylvie is known for her
independent turn of mind, only working with the cops when she
has to, she knows when she is over her head and a serial
killer is definitely way above her comfort zone. Werewolves,
pissed off ghosts and other 'bumps in the night' are more
her specialty but human predators she leaves to the
authorities.
Then the victims rise up from the water, shift into animal
form and attack the men in blue, killing most of them before
heading off to a new location and placing the case right
back smack in Sylvie's face. Despite her reluctance, she
promises the newly widowed client and one of the surviving
cops that she will find out who is messing with the dead.
After all there is no one else who is remotely equipped to
hunt down a member of the Magicus Mundi. and their
scent is all over the newly bloody crime scene.
Complicating matters is a witch who is gunning for revenge,
another witch who blames Sylvie (not without cause) for the
loss of her powers and her assistant and business partner
Alex who is a crackerjack researcher, horribly vulnerable to
magic yet determined to put herself in danger in order to
help.
Benedict's brooding private eye gives her series a film noir
feel sparked with the psychedelic colors of inordinately
powerful paranormal adversaries. Sylvie Lightner's defenses
depend more on whom and what she knows than any magical
talent of her own greatly increasing the intensity of the
storyline. Her reluctant sense of morality and drive to
protect innocents make her one of most appealing in the
relatively new crop of urban fantasy heroes. GODS AND
MONSTERS is book three in the Shadows Inquiries series.
When Sylvie Lightner, South Miami Beach's only unlicensed
supernatural detective, finds the bodies of five women in
the Everglades, she thinks it's the work of a serial killer
and passes the buck. Or attempts to. Then the bodies wake
and shift shape, attacking and killing the police
investigators, Sylvie's right back on the job. She recruits
a necromancer, to help her, and together, they learn the
truth: these shape-shifting women are the victims of a
legendary sorcerer known as the soul-devourer, a man who has
mingle alchemy, shape-shifting, and death magic into a
gruesome whole.
The soul-devourer has left a trail of dead women throughout
the Gulf States, and Sylvie's determined that he'll be
stopped here. That's before she learns he is so much more
than a feared sorcerer--he's an immortal one, cursed by an
angry god. It is hard enough to kill an immortal being, but
it's even harder to take out the one who's learned to use
human magics to outrun a god...
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