Shadows in the Darkness
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Publisher Description
Gwen "GiGi" Gelman, a ten year veteran of the Providence, Rhode Island vice squad, finds herself unemployed after being blamed for a routine bust that turned into a bloodbath. GiGi is used to being on her own, though, and with the help of a DA who owes her, she's scraped together enough capital to start her own PI business, specializing in"family problems"-in particular runaways who have disappeared into Providence's seamy underside.
With a few custodian kidnapping cases under her belt, as well as a case against a Catholic school teacher/molester, Gigi is doing well for herself --until she takes on the case of a fourteen year old runaway who may or may not have been kidnapped.
As Gigi investigates, she accidentally opens the door to her own mystical past. Now long-hidden family ties threaten her, and the secret of her identity unlocks a conspiracy that reveals the forces of darkness that play in the shadows...
Forces that intend to be the masters of all mortal life.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An elf packing heat who enjoys looking like jail bait when necessary is the latest twist on the New Weird fantasy fused with contemporary mystery tropes laced with erotic undertones a genre Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series helped establish almost 10 years ago. In the first of the Changeling trilogy, Cunningham (Windwalker) delivers urban fantasy with a straight face (C.S.I. via Tolkien?), employing the quicksilver pacing typical of such suspense authors as Vachs, Gardner and Koontz. Gwen "GiGi" Gellman, however, is not a vampire slayer; she's a freelance PI based in Providence on the brink of discovering her DNA is not human. Cunningham's fey orphan has spent 10 years in law enforcement when an undercover assignment ends with her reputation blown to bits along with two cops. At 34, Gwen must deal with her growing psychic powers and a second case involving a missing 14-year-old (the first turns up a corpse, unsavory memories and readers asking "Did I miss something?"). Gwen goes undercover into the world of underage erotic dancers at Underhill, a "gentleman's club," and meets the mysterious owner, Ian Forest, whose assistance creates more puzzles. This is an auspicious debut for a cool crime-solver who could teach Anita a thing or two. FYI:Cunningham is also the author of the best-selling paperback Star Wars The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey.
