Shadows in the Starlight
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
A ten year veteran of the Providence Rhode Island vice squad Gwen "GiGi" Gellman began her life as a foundling and is used to being on her own. So when she finds herself unemployed and on the outs after a standard bust goes bad resulting in a bloodbath, she welcomes the occasion to break from routine. She scrapes together enough capital to start her own PI business specializing in "family problems." But, in doing so she never guessed that she would uncover her own mysterious and mystical past.
When GiGi becomes involved in the case of a missing wife and child, she initially dismisses the matter as good sense on the wife's part--she knows the husband to be less than stellar in his role. But, as her investigation progresses GiGi discovers a pattern of lies and deceptions, some of which expose hidden ties to her own mystifying existence.
Otherworldly powers try to intercede, and soon GiGi finds not only her own life threatened, but those of her friends and family as well.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PI Gwen Gellman, the tough-girl heroine of Cunningham's fast-paced second changeling detective novel (after 2004's Shadows in the Darkness), is starting to accept she's not human. While Gwen is curious to explore her recently discovered elf heritage, she's far too busy trying to prove her mentor was murdered, looking for the missing wife and child of her lesbian attorney friend's abusive ex-husband, tracking down a pimp who enslaves Russian girls, dealing with an addictive aphrodisiacal but not yet illicit herbal drug, uncovering and avoiding lethal corruption in the Providence, R.I., police force and much, much more. Meanwhile, elvish politics that closely resemble those of the Mafia crossed with rigorous eugenics pose a potential threat. The fate of all elfdom and the human race the elves despise may somehow depend on Gwen. With its winning rainbow coalition of characters, this fantasy-crime hybrid is almost too much of a good thing for readers who haven't read the first volume and still await the third.
