Black Magic Woman is the first in a new series by author Justin Gustainis, “The Quincey Morris Supernatural Investigations”.
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Quincey Morris is an investigator of the occult and the supernatural. He’s a descendant and namesake of the Texan who died in the Carpathian Mountains, helping Abraham Van Helsing and John Seward rid the world of a cursed and vicious Count. Libby Chastain is a white witch, close friend and sometimes contractor for Quincey, helping him out whenever a little magic needs to be worked.
What starts out as a “simple” assignment to free a family from a curse that dates back to the Salem Witch Trials turns into a deadly cross-country pursuit to uncover the power behind it and end the threat. Once the witch responsible for the black magic feeding the curse discovers that Morris and Chastain are coming after her, she decides to take the battle to them, hard and fast.
In a second story line, Garth Van Dreenan, a South African detective from their Occult Crimes Bureau, comes to the States and is teamed with African-American FBI agent Dale Fenton in the search for a serial killer who’s been abducting children and killing them for their organs.
Both storylines converge in whirlwind fashion, bringing resolution to one aspect of what they’ve discovered. But all of our heroes are unaware that another door is still open…
The Verdict: Fantastic stuff, I loved it, and I think you will too. This book first got my attention because of the excellent recommendation by Jim Butcher. There are vampires in the book though this is not a book about vampires. Quincey has no supernatural abilities, just lots of experience and of course his family history of dealing with such things. *grin*