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Dead Witch Walking

Kim Harrison

Forty years ago a genetically engineered virus killed half of the world's human population and exposed the creatures of dreams and nightmares that had, until then, lived in secret alongside humanity. Rachel Morgan is a runner with the Inderland Runner Services, apprehending criminals throughout modern-day Cincinnati. She is also a witch.

Fuelled by pride, Rachel is a talented and unconventional runner, used to confronting criminal vampires, dark witches and homicidal werewolves. But her latest assignments - apprehending cable-stealing magic students and tax-evading leprechauns - have prompted her to break her thirty-year contract with the I.S. and start her own runner agency.

But no one quits the I.S.

Marked for death, Rachel is a dead witch walking unless she can appease her former employers and pay off her contract by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord. But making an enemy of the ambiguous Trent Kalamack proves even more deadly than leaving the I.S.

Of late I seem to have been reading books that are just for my own guilty pleasure. Not particularly weighty and not requiring much thought, but of late thats all I fancy reading.

This is the first of what is essentially a bounty hunter series with a healthy dose of vampires, werewolves, pixies, faeries and various other things occulty. The plot synopsis is pretty accurate, so I won't go into too much detail. The events take place in the near future, albeit in a slightly altered reality, and its relatively easy to see the similarities, both of ideals and situations that are explored. The core characters are well written, and even at this stage you can see plot lines being set up for future books, and I for one will be along for the ride.

24 Mar 2007 22:07 | (0) comments | Books