Book Review: Larissa Ione’s Reaper
Azagoth made a bargain to maintain the balance of good and evil, expecting respect from both sides. But neither side respects him. One has kidnapped his mate while Heaven wants him and his baby dead.
Azagoth made a bargain to maintain the balance of good and evil, expecting respect from both sides. But neither side respects him. One has kidnapped his mate while Heaven wants him and his baby dead.
An “accidental” theft brings Jade McClaren to the attention of the Fae Queen’s knights, one of whom she’ll have to team up with to clear her name.
What begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of Roderick Alleyn’s career. For before he can corner the killer, his heart is captured by one of the suspects — the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for Alleyn.
Cains are known for being big, brutish and not-too-bright. The mutt clan embodies all the supernatural world’s worst stereotypes about werewolves. But not even the Cains deserve to be hunted down and skinned like animals.
Death was served well-chilled and Inspector Roderick Alleyn must uncork this mystery and uncover a devious killer.
FBI Agent Lily Yu’s birthday celebration was interrupted by murder. That of an old friend of Rule’s. And another friend is being railroaded by the chief of police.
It was an ecstasy that ended in death after Cara Quayne drank the ritual wine. Discovering how the fatal cyanide got into the bizarre group’s wine is but one of the perplexing riddles that confronts Scotland Yard’s Inspector Roderick Alleyn.
Two halves, One house . . . When dreams clash can these two find love in an old fixer-upper?
The beautiful stage actress Nur-el-Din has London captivated but there is a mystery about her. It is enhanced when a dead body is found connected to her and the Chief of the British Secret Service feels it warrants investigation, something he puts on the still young agent Okewood.
When Britain’s Home Secretary complained of abdominal pains, it seemed like a simple case of appendicitis. But minutes after his operation, the ill-fated politician lay dead on the table. When Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives to dissect the situation, he finds many a likely suspect, including a vengeful surgeon, a lovelorn nurse, an unhappy wife, and political foes.