Demons, Death Threats, and Christmas Shopping.
It’s Christmas time and Adrien English, the “ill-starred and bookish” bookseller and occasional mystery writer must contend with a Satanic cult, a handsome and eccentric university professor, and his on-again/off-again relationship with the eternally conflicted LAPD Detective Jake Riordan.
Not to mention murder...
Genre: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth
This series has been in print since 2000. It has been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
Chapter One
The voice on the phone rasped, “Bones of anger, bones of dust, full of fury, revenge is just. I scatter these bones, these bones of rage, enemy mine, I bring you pain. Torment, fire, death the toll, with this hex I curse your soul. So mote it be.”
I handed the receiver to Angus, who was facing out the “We Recommend” stand by the counter. “It’s for you.”
He took the receiver and put his ear against it as though expecting an electric shock. He listened, then, hand shaking, he replaced the receiver and stared at me. Behind the blue lenses of the John Lennon specs his eyes were terrified. He licked his pale lips.
“Look, Angus,” I said. “Why don’t you talk to Jake? He’s a cop. Maybe he can help.”
“He’s a homicide detective,” Angus muttered. “Plus he doesn’t like me.”
True on both counts, but I tried anyway.
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Translated by Dee Campos
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