The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Outlaw Demon Wails" returns to the sexy, supernatural adventures of bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan.

Reviews

The seventh installment of Harrison's Rachel Morgan series (The Outlaw Demon Wails) finds Rachel inching closer to the identity of her vampire boyfriend Kisten's murderer. Rachel has no memory of the events leading up to Kisten's death, and she's terrified of facing what happened. Yet she persists in her search for answers. Meanwhile, a banshee and her family are wreaking havoc on the Hollows, causing further tension between the human and Inderland populations. As usual, however, Rachel, with her dealings with demons, is blamed. While not as action-packed as some of the earlier series novels, this outing introduces a more introspective side of these now-familiar characters, including pixy Jenks, whose beloved wife, Matalina, is nearing the end of her all-too-brief life span. The story arc involving Kisten's murder comes to a satisfying conclusion, but ample twists, turns, and loose ends ensure that this isn't the last we'll see of Rachel Morgan. This likely best seller is highly recommended for all fiction collections.-Nanette Donohue, Champaign P.L., IL Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Confusion reigns for characters and readers in the complicated seventh urban fantasy outing (after 2008's The Outlaw Demon Wails) for witch detective Rachel Morgan. Rachel's reputation is in tatters-to save humanity, she used powers that are considered evil-and she's still devastated by the mysterious death of her boyfriend six months earlier. Her attempts to solve his murder bleed into a case involving an emotion-sucking banshee, and soon Rachel has to bring in her PI partners-Ivy, a bisexual vampire, and Jenks, a pixie in existential crisis-along with empathic psychiatrist Ford and the banshee victim's father, Federal Inderland Bureau captain Edden. Harrison's unique vampire mythology unduly complicates world-building, and newcomers will be desperate for a glossary, but the nearly nonstop action nicely plays off the poignancy of Rachel's difficult life. (Mar.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

"I wouldn't miss a Kim Harrison book for anything."--Charlaine Harris