Moses Reilly is a star detective. Renowned for his
excellent performance and fierce investigative abilities.
He’s more than up for the challenge of a strangely posed
body left in one of London’s more affluent areas… aided, at the insistence of
his superiors, by Zelda
Zelda works for G4S, an international mercenary
organisation – and her leader is very wary when a body appears on her doorstep.
Of course she has far greater mysteries for Moses to
discover
There are a few aspects about this book I like. I like
that despite this book being a romance, there is a definite focus of getting
the job done. I love that Moses is focused most on catching the murderer than
he is on Zelda no matter how delectable he finds her. Even though he fixates on
her (and she on him) a painful amount of the time he is very much focused on
the police work
Except for a moment I’ll come to, I really liked how the
investigation proceeded with lots of police work, red herrings, running things
down, investigating etc etc. I really like how it’s done
The writing is generally good, though it borders on
over-elaborate. Except when you get to the sex scenes which are purpler than a bruised
Barney. And we had some plot lines (like Paula the affair) and characters who
don’t seem to have any purpose.
But it isn’t our genre
Oh yes yes yes one of the characters is a werewolf
But it’s irrelevant. She doesn’t actually shapeshift
until the last chapter long after pretty much everything is resolved. About the
only way werewolf-ness is actually a thing is by giving her a sense of smell
that actually allows her to vaguely contribute to the police investigation (and
even then, it’s dubious. Everyone just accepts she has this amazing sense of
smell and is willing to base an entire police investigation on it?) – in fact,
it would have been just as useful and maybe even better to make her an
extremely skilled forensic scientist. At least then she would be valued and useful
to the team due to her skills and knowledge rather than woo-woo. When you can
literally replace the word “werewolf” with “forensic scientist” I think it’s
dubious to even put it in our genre
