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The Spectral City
by Leanna Renee Hieber
Eve Whitby comes from a family of psychics, even though her parents are not comfortable with this at all (Her grandmother, however, is and is both a powerful psychic and Eve's mentor). It opens with Eve being put in charge of a supernatural squad within the NYPD by Teddy Roosevelt himself and Detective Horowitz is set up as her liaison.
Something strange happens immediately. One of the ghosts Eve usually speaks to, who helps her with her investigations, has gone missing. Eve and her other psychic companions, several young women from diverse backgrounds and races (and one who communicates via sign language) have a few cases facing them. A murder at a prominent house that no one is allowed to investigate, a spat of religiously motivated thefts and a missing little girl are all piled on their plate.
Without spoilers, they are somewhat interrelated and the ladies (along with Horowitz) have to prize apart all the threads and follow them back to answers. I will say that it doesn't quite all tie up and the ending is very open to the next book (as I type this, the third in the series is gearing up for release). I'm not generally a fan of opening endings but enough was tied up and the story felt done so that was okay.
I really liked Eve and Horowitz. Both are outsiders (she a woman/psychic on the force right before the turn of the 20th century, and he a Jewish detective) and they work well together. You can see the beginnings of a romance there. I did like Eve's girl gang of psychics (not to mention Grandma) but I didn't feel like I got to know the other psychics that well yet. I'm looking forward to doing that in book two. I really enjoyed this and I'm awaiting what comes next.
Something strange happens immediately. One of the ghosts Eve usually speaks to, who helps her with her investigations, has gone missing. Eve and her other psychic companions, several young women from diverse backgrounds and races (and one who communicates via sign language) have a few cases facing them. A murder at a prominent house that no one is allowed to investigate, a spat of religiously motivated thefts and a missing little girl are all piled on their plate.
Without spoilers, they are somewhat interrelated and the ladies (along with Horowitz) have to prize apart all the threads and follow them back to answers. I will say that it doesn't quite all tie up and the ending is very open to the next book (as I type this, the third in the series is gearing up for release). I'm not generally a fan of opening endings but enough was tied up and the story felt done so that was okay.
I really liked Eve and Horowitz. Both are outsiders (she a woman/psychic on the force right before the turn of the 20th century, and he a Jewish detective) and they work well together. You can see the beginnings of a romance there. I did like Eve's girl gang of psychics (not to mention Grandma) but I didn't feel like I got to know the other psychics that well yet. I'm looking forward to doing that in book two. I really enjoyed this and I'm awaiting what comes next.