Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD: The Thin Blue Ley-Line by Keith
R.A. DeCandido
Blurb:
When Detective Domenica Kiernan solved the murder of a mayor’s
aide—killed by a vampire—she never imagined she’d find herself at the vanguard
of the NYPD’s latest special squad: the Supernatural Crimes Unit.
Tasked with closing cases involving magic and monsters, the
SCU has dealt with a shape-changing domovoy committing assault in Chelsea, the
murder of a kappa on City Island, a thieving Taotie in Chinatown—and their
latest, two murder victims whose corpses have been liquefied by a powerful
spell.
Kiernan and the rest of the SCU must find the connection
between the two victims and figure out who cast the spell that destroyed the
corpses. Soon, their investigation leads to a malevolent magic-user who yearns
for limitless power, whose plans go far beyond disposing of a dead body. He’ll
stop at nothing to achieve his goals—including kidnapping Bobby, Kiernan’s
ten-year-old son.
The SCU has no choice: they must go rogue to find Bobby and
stop the wizard before he unleashes hell on Earth!
My review:
If you took Law & Order and made the SVU into SCU (Supernatural
Crimes Unit) you would get an idea of the cast of the monster squad. A good
many of the NYPD don’t believe the monsters exist and so are of little to no
help. Dealing with the bureaucracy is almost as hard as dealing with the “monsters”.
This is a police procedural with monsters and a mystery. I thoroughly enjoyed.
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