A review by this_little_bookshelf
A Fever of the Blood by Oscar de Muriel

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

3.5

This series is like reading a Dickensian version of Mulder and Scully. In the late 1800s, strait-laced Inspector Frey is banished to Scotland to assist the ghost-hunting Detective McGray in a little known CID department dedicated to investigating cases suspected to have a paranormal cause. Although Frey is a bit of a pompous ass, there is some excellent Victorian-era sass in the odd-couple bickering between him and McGray, keeping these paranormal mysteries lighthearted.

I loved the first book in this series, and while this witchy follow up was still enjoyable, the pacing dropped off and the plot dragged a bit towards the middle before coming together at the end.