License to Ensorcell
Katherine Kerr
Daw, Feb 1 2011, $7.99
ISBN: 9780756406561
Federal agent operative Nola O'Grady works for the most top secret government agency consisting of an entity of psychics that even the FBI and CIA are ignorant that it exists. She has doubts about coming home to San Francisco to work because she worries that her gifted family will get involved in her dangerous cases.
Making matters more complicated is her new partner Israeli Interpol secret agent Ari Nathan whose shoot first philosophy makes a bull in a china shop seems like ot behaves like a kitten. They investigate a serial killer who uses silver bullets to murder victims the psychopath believes are werewolves. Whereas Ari assumes the predator is insane, Nola knows the hunter targets are real lycanthrope as her brother Pat who ironically wanted to become a catholic priest was the first known victim.
This is an entertaining investigative urban fantasy that sub-genre readers will enjoy as O’Grady is a psychic Lara Croft and Nathan is her sidekick stepping on toes whose prime mission turns out to insure his female partner eats meals. Although the lead relationship is not a new combo (see Caitlin Kitteridge’s Black London and Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels) nor is the story line (see D.D. Barant’s Bloodhound Files), fans will enjoy the streets of San Francisco as seen through an otherworldly lens.
Harriet Klausner
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