Grave Memory - Alex Craft

Informationen zum Autor Kalayna Price  is the  USA Today  bestselling author of the Alex Craft novels including Grave Ransom ,  Grave Visions ,  Grave Memory ,  Grave Dance , and  Grave Witch . Ms. Price draws her ideas from the world around her, her studies into ancient mythologies, and her obsession with classic folklore. Klappentext When the dead need to talk, Alex Craft is always ready to listen… As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead-an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding. But her magic isn't the only thing causing havoc in her life. While she's always been on friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal. Then there's her sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie. But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a string of suicides occur in Nekros City and Alex is hired to investigate. The shades have no memory of the days leading up to their brutal endings, so despite the very public apparent suicides, this is murder. But what kind of magic can overcome the human will to survive? And why do the shades lack the memory of their deaths? Searching for the answer might mean Alex won't have a life to remember at all… “What do you think?” I asked, as I fumbled for the light switch. An incandescent bulb flickered on, and then continued flickering. I frowned at it, but the late–afternoon sunlight streaming through the grimy picture window prevented the gloom from devouring the room. Rianna peered through the open doorway but made no effort to enter. Her hand fell to idly scratch behind the ear of the barghest who acted as her ever–present shadow. “What am I supposed to be looking at?” “The official office for Tongues for the Dead,” I said, waving a hand as if presenting the room. Rianna had first suggested we open a PI firm that solved cases by questioning the dead when we were still in academy, but by the time I’d finished college, she’d vanished. Three months ago I’d found and liberated her from a power–hungry fae who’d made her a captive changeling of Faerie, and in the wake of recent chaos, we were both healing, adapting, and rebuilding. Which, in my opinion, made now the perfect time to give the dreams of two idealistic schoolgirls a second chance. Rianna obviously didn’t agree. “Alex, I think you might need to give your eyes a little more time to recover.” “This place isn’t that bad,” I said, glancing around the room I envisioned would be a reception lobby—you know, if the firm ever became profitable enough to hire a receptionist. My gaze skidded over walls covered in layers of graffitied runes and minor, mostly dispersed, spells, before moving on to take in the balding carpet, and the piles of beer cans and cigarettes tossed haphazardly around the otherwise empty room. “It just needs a little TLC.” Rianna cocked an eyebrow, and the barghest, Desmond, who was in his customary shape of an oversized black dog with red–ringed pupils, huffed, making his jowls billow. “Okay, so it needs a lot of work, but the rent is affordable”—barely, and only because my landlord waived the rent on my loft as payment for the last big case I’d worked—“and it’s in the Magic Quarter. A definite perk as we offer magical solutions in our investigations.” “Alex, this is a seedy back alley on the very edge of the Magic Quarter. We’re about as far as we can be from the heart of the Quarter. No upscale restaurants. No spell boutiques. Not even the kitschy stores hawking overpriced, underpowered charms to norms are out this far.” She glanced over her shoulder at the only other door in the admittedly less than ideal alley and lowered her voice. “And I’m pret...

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• Autori: Kalayna Price
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.07.2012
• EAN: 9780451464590
• ISBN: 978-0-451-46459-0
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 173 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: Roc; An Alex Craft Novel; Alex Craft Novels; An Alex Craft Novel; Alex Craft Novels; Penguin Publishing Group
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy