Product Description

Gwen "GiGi" Gelman, a ten year veteran of the Providence, Rhode Island, vice squad, finds herself unemployed after a routine bust turns into a bloodbath and she's made the scapegoat. GiGi is used to being on her own though, and with the help of a DA who owes her more than a few favours, she's scraped together enough capital to start her own PI business, specializing in runaways and "family problems." With a few custodial 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 her own mystical past. Now long hidden family ties threaten her existence, and the secret of her identity unlocks a conspiracy that reveals the true puppet masters and vice lords that prey in the shadows.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #934981 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Gripping Supernatural Thriller
Following a drug bust which goes spectacularly wrong, Gwen Gellman leaves the police force to start her own PI business, specializing in finding runaways. As she investigates her latest case, she finds it has ties to her own past. Now her real family know about her, and though Gwen is determined to find the missing girl before it's too late, her time is running out.

Shadows in the Darkness is a PI novel with an urban fantasy twist. For much of the book the plot deals with Gwen finding a missing girl, and investigating the failed drug bust which led to her leaving the police force. However, every so often we are given the hint that there is more to this than meets the eye. Alongside her normal life, Gwen is also subject to a more supernatural heritage, of which she is mostly unaware. As a reader you realise there is a metaphorical net slowly tightening around Gwen as she tries to find the runaway - the deeper she gets into the case the more it wraps around her. This is a multi-layered tale of elves, missing girls, murder and police corruption; where it seems every character has an ulterior motive and a hidden agenda.

Shadows in the Darkness is probably not for those readers who prefer a more romantic urban fantasy. Gwen deals with the ugly side of life most people prefer to ignore. One of the reviews in the front of the book refers to SITD as a supernatural Alias and that's a good summation.

Recommended for fans of Wen Spencer's Ukiah Oregon series, Kat Richardson's Greywalker, Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard and Harper Connelly series. Also for anyone who likes crime/PI novels who's interested in trying a little urban fantasy.

Book #2 Shadows in the Starlight was released Feb 2007

Gripping Supernatural Thriller
Following a drug bust which goes spectacularly wrong, Gwen Gellman leaves the police force to start her own PI business, specializing in finding runaways. As she investigates her latest case, she finds it has ties to her own past. Now her real family know about her, and though Gwen is determined to find the missing girl before it's too late, her time is running out.

Shadows in the Darkness is a PI novel with an urban fantasy twist. For much of the book the plot deals with Gwen finding a missing girl, and investigating the failed drug bust which led to her leaving the police force. However, every so often we are given the hint that there is more to this than meets the eye. Alongside her normal life, Gwen is also subject to a more supernatural heritage, of which she is mostly unaware. As a reader you realise there is a metaphorical net slowly tightening around Gwen as she tries to find the runaway - the deeper she gets into the case the more it wraps around her. This is a multi-layered tale of elves, missing girls, murder and police corruption; where it seems every character has an ulterior motive and a hidden agenda.

Shadows in the Darkness is probably not for those readers who prefer a more romantic urban fantasy. Gwen deals with the ugly side of life most people prefer to ignore. One of the reviews in the front of the book refers to SITD as a supernatural Alias and that's a good summation.

Recommended for fans of Wen Spencer's Ukiah Oregon series, Kat Richardson's Greywalker, Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard and Harper Connelly series. Also for anyone who likes crime/PI novels who's interested in trying a little urban fantasy.

Book #2 Shadows in the Starlight was released Feb 2007