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Dear Mr. Battis,
While it can be said we have a female author bias here at DearAuthor (and maybe that’s true to a certain extent), we have previously reviewed and enjoyed books written by male authors here. If a book interests me, it interests me regardless of who wrote it. So when your urban fantasy debut was described as Buffy meets CSI, I wanted to check it out. I was curious to see how forensic science would fit into the urban fantasy landscape. In fact, I was a little surprised this particular combination hadn’t been done before. But after finishing the novel, I think I might have a clue as to why that’s the case.
Tess Corday is a low-ranking occult special investigator with the ability to detect subtle alterations in an organism’s energy signature. It might not be flashy, but this talent comes in handy when you work for the Mystical Crime Lab unit, a group charged with solving paranormal violent crimes. Her latest case involves a dead vampire whose body was dumped in a back alleyway. …



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