I worked as a paralegal for many years and know how little justice there is in this world. Passion is a requirement if you toil in that legal arena of wit and woe. Even if you lose your case, you must go on. That’s when I had the epiphany that there are other forms of justice. I also realized that the occult does not necessarily mean bad or evil. If I’m losing faith, I pick up a novel about the delicious and refreshing possibilities of justice with a twist. This is a kind of justice where there is not necessarily a courtroom; there are no judges, no lawyers, and no jury.
I loved this story because it opens your mind to another kind of justice, but justice nonetheless.
Vicki Nelson is an ex-cop turned private investigator. One evening, she witnesses a horrific murder that is out of this world.
She consults with her former partner, Mike Celluci. However, a knight in not-so-shiny armor appears, Henry Fitzroy. Henry is a vampire who will prove to be the best ally they could have hoped for. And there, in the dark streets of Toronto, a new kind of justice had been born.
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Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable death, Vicki is forced to renew her tempestuous relationship with her former partner, Mike Celluci, to stop these forces of dark magic—along with another, unexpected ally…
Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, has learned over the course of his long life how to blend with humans,…
I will never forget this story. It’s about betrayal and street justice. Sometimes, it’s the only way to regain your soul.
When New York socialite Jo Slater meets a French countess, they become fast friends. Shortly after, bad things start to happen.
First, her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. Next, she loses everything because the beneficiary of her husband’s will is the countess. Struggling through poverty, she comes up with a brilliant plan for justice.
Just like that, the French countess had vanished, and Jo had regained her losses. Best of all, she had regained her smile; it was a certain kind of smile, like that of a Cheshire cat
When her husband of twenty years dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving his fortune--and Jo's position in society--to a mysterious French countess, Jo Slater, once one of New York's leading grande dames, comes up with an ingenious scheme to seek revenge designed to recoup her fortune and reclaim her "throne," with only a little murder standing in her way. 35,000 first printing.
This story made me feel that even among the monsters, there is justice.
Harry, the main character, is a very charming wizard and investigator. He helps people, including the Chicago police, with “supernatural” problems.
In this case, his task is to solve a double murder committed through black magic. Things are not always as they seem in an understatement when it comes to sorcery. While the police may not agree, Harry knows exactly where to find the perpetrator, and he does. Although Harry is quite effective, he has a lot of obstacles: local law enforcement and the not so invisible netherworld justice system
In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, Harry Dresden’s investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago…
As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with humans far too much. He also knows he’s the best at what he does. Technically, he’s the only at what he does. But even though Harry is the only game in town, business—to put…
This story is about the best: ironic, poetic justice. I personally could not stop laughing at the end.
Villain Patrick Lanigan’s career began as a lawyer and blossomed. Sadly, this only gave him an unquenchable lust for money. He was a crafty, shifty thief.
He thought of himself as a sort of Robin Hood when he decided to steal $90 million that was not really “kosher.” Then, he fakes his own death, which involves a dead body, not his. On and on you might experience jet lag reading this complex plot.
In the end, the love of his life took off with the money and left him rotting in jail.
Seldom do battered women get true justice. In this book, justice is served on a very cold plate.
Two sisters, Sally and Gillian, are witches by heritage. After their parent’s deaths, they grew up with their two aunts, also witches.
Sally was a happily married woman until her husband suddenly died. Gillian has lived a life of independence or what some might consider a wild life style. When Gillian’s boyfriend becomes a mortal threat, she gives him a potion, accidentally killing him. He comes back to haunt her from the grave. That’s when everyone in their family comes together to banish his evil spirit.
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The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and…
Alexa Romani had just published I Sorceress, when cyber pirate Freddie Woodley stole it. He was not only a thief, he had committed parricide. Alexa decided to get justice not only for herself, but for his parents as well. To avenge them, she devised the Curse of the Urn, the ultimate weapon for justice with a twist he would never see coming.
Underground Telegraph, a Los Angeles supernatural news magazine, starts delving into the story of Freddie Woodley’s strange death. Coincidentally, Los Angeles is now the venue for several unnatural murders. People are dropping dead from exsanguination. Is there a vampire on the loose? The pressure is on for Lieutenant Loya of the LAPD, he and the coroner share many, late nights and many nightmares.
I’ve adored reading a good snarky first-person story since I first read Bloodlist, so long as the snark doesn’t go too far and become total unlikeable jerk… It can be a fine line!I hope I stay on the right side of it, but having read it enough and written in it for years with my Blood Rights Series, I feel qualified to say I’m a…snark connoisseur. (If you ask my family, this is how my own internal/life narrator speaks! My mother says that my character Dakota is me if I “said everything aloud that I think in my head.” She’s probably right, and I’m okay with that.)
Bad Blood is paranormal suspense in First Person Snark, so if you like sarcastic, strong female characters set in a world where the preternatural is run amok (i.e., legal citizens in the United States), then this book and series are for you.
Follow Sadie Stanton–"poster girl for the preternatural"–as she deals with all sorts of messes and sets up her business while being a vampire in a new day...or night, really.
I’m Sadie Stanton, and I don’t know why everyone makes such a big deal out of me. I’m just like everyone else—I’m trying to start a business, not spending much time on my social life, and dealing with an obnoxious roommate...
Oh, and being a vampire. There’s that. But it’s okay, because we’re all legal now.
But believe me, that doesn’t make life easy. In fact, it might be harder now than ever before, but I did it to myself… And now vampires are attacking people seemingly at random and not even trying to feed. Everyone…
