Book Reviews

Book Blurb

Quickest way to catch a killer? Bring the victim back and ask who did it. Only, nothing’s that easy.

When the bodies of young gay men start piling up in London, DCI Ben Weaver would do anything to bring the massacre to an end. Well, almost anything. He didn’t have the powers-that-be recruiting a necromancer on his bingo card. Or who that necromancer would turn out to be.

Griffin doesn’t want to work for CID, but then he has little interest in most things these days unless it involves getting drunk. Especially if it brings Ben back into his life. Ben might be his fated mate, but Griffin refuses to dance to fate’s tune. Not when guilt still gnaws away at him.

Stopping Satanic Romeo from claiming any more victims requires teamwork. But as they try to navigate their feelings and work out the killer’s endgame, he might already have them in his sights.

Who’s hunting who?

 

 

Content warning for murder, violence and suicide.

 

Book Review

Where book one, ‘Deader than Dead’, had me hooked from page one, I struggled with the first part of book two. DCI Ben Weaver and Necromancer Griffin Caldwell have a history and an intense bond that Griffin walked away from, leaving Ben bereft, emotionally crushed, but still linked to everything Griffin was feeling… and for Griffin, everything Ben was feeling.

 

Three years later the two are brought together again to figure out who is killing gay men in London and chopping off their fingers, and it’s antagonistic from the get-go. Kudos to the author for writing emotions so strong, but they were so much so I had to read the first part of the book in bites. I knew the two characters would work through their estrangement – it was a matter of when. When it that reconnection and resolution did finally happen, it was such a relief and then I felt I could sit back and enjoy the murder mystery.

 

I also want to say, even with the on-page antagonism, this was one of the most interesting romances I have read in ages – this was an established couple, trauma ripped them apart, with a bond connecting them emotionally and physically despite one of them walking away. For three years they could inflict physical and emotional discomfort on the other person over a distance. How do you get over that?!? No, how does a person deal with that?!? I thought this aspect was very well written.

 

For those who enjoy their murder mysteries, the who-done-it was fairly easy to figure out and a matter of waiting to see how the climatic conclusion would reveal all. Ben and Griffin’s characters are the strength in this book.

 

A solid follow-up to ‘Deader than Dead’ and it sets up book three where a handful of dangling threads should be nicely tied up. Do read these in order, as book one establishes the foundations and characters for the series.

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 348 pages
Heat Level
Publication Date	31-July-2024
Price	$5.99 ebook, $13.99 paperback
Buy Link	https://www.amazon.com/Dropping-Like-Flies-Paranormal-Problems-ebook/dp/B0CVV1DN2X