Evil running amok, killing little kids for their organs, a Black Magician who comes across as a spoiled little boy who did not get his way and several people intent on stopping the coming of, well, the END. Though Gustainis writes a fairly good story, his dialogue can be quite clunky and awkward at times and I think he tries too hard to explain stuff that should be obvious to the reader. Still, I enjoyed this book.

This is the name dropping book and I found myself wondering just how close to copyright you can skim before tipping over the edge ...

~The characters go to Chicago chasing leads down and with the intent to speak with Harry "Chicago's resident wizard" Dresden. They also visit Mac's Bar. While in Chicago, Morris tries to get in touch with Carl Kolchak but Tony is less than cooperative. LOL

~Hannah Widmark, the woman Morris hires to watch his and Libby Chastain's backs, was trained to shoot Colt .45s by a guy named Cranston ... cue eerie laugh.

~Even the X-Files gets named checked!

I'm not to sure who Frank in the text is, or what the whole fist shake he shares with Hannah is, though it could be just Gustainis' own addition to his universe. I kind of wonder if he wasn't trying for a reference to Supernatural.

I'm beginning to think there ought to to be a convention of wizards, magic workers, monster hunters etc. including Harry, Alex Verus, Quincy Morris & Libby Chastain, Peter Grant, the Winchesters ... ( )

Justin continues to enthrall with this book. We get to meet a couple of new characters - Hannah and FBI SA Colleen, who is also a white witch.

Quincy is blackmailed into helping the FBI try to figure out who is behind the deaths of children for their organs across the country. Meanwhile back at home Libby has a death threat of her own, two assassins try to kill her in the shower.

Libby is of course successful in thwarting the death attempt but other white witches aren't so lucky.

What's the connection between the deaths of the kids for their organs and killing off white witches? Let Justin take you on his journey to find out. ( )

This one started off a bit slow but gained momentum as it continued, I loved the shadow of a cameo by Harry Dresden (he doesn't appear because he has other things he has to do but Morris and Chastain visit his stomping grounds). Someone is killing white witches and children and Morris and Chastain have to try to stop them before they do something earth-shattering.

I liked it, it wasn't remarkable but it was diverting. ( )

This second case for Morris and Chastain ramps up the intensity of the first case. Someone, in fact a group of someones, are killing children and harvesting their organs. Morris is blackmailed by FBI Agent Dale Fenton and his new white witch partner Colleen O'Donnell to investigate the case. Meanwhile, someone is targeting and killing white witches and have made a few unsuccessful attempts to kill Libby Chastain.

Quincey has Libby join him to help with his investigation and to protect her too. To provide additional protection, he enlists Hannah Widmark who is another very dangerous character. Both the FBI investigation and Quincy and Libby's investigation start pointing the same direction. A black magician named Lewis Pardee is planning something big. Like, lay waste to the Earth big.

Pardee is funded by zillionaire Walter Grobius who is hoping for healing from his terminal illness and extended life. Pardee has other goals. The action is tense in this one. I love the relationship between Quincey and Libby. They are friends and partners but have no romantic interest in each other. Both respect the other's competence and together they are a very formidable team.

This was another great urban fantasy that was filled with action and adventure. ( )

Finally an Urban Fantasy book that is not First Person. I like reading first person books like Dresden and Sookie but its nice to change it up a bit. And Urban Fantasy doesn't seem to lend itself as a genre to third person. But we have it here thanks to Justin Gustainis.

This is the second book dealing with Morris and Libby Chastain. He is a super-nat Quincey ural private investigator and she is a White Witch. This time around the FBI wants Quincey to investigate a bunch of children being murdered around the country, sometimes happening on the same day. Generally Quincey would call Libby up to get her super-natural perspective on things but she is being target by assassins. So she asks him for protection.

The two FBI agents are researching it from their perspective as well. And everything leads to Pardee and his employer Walter Grobius. What are they up to and what does a book taken from a museum in Iraq have to do with everything?

This is a great fun book. More is added on from the first and there may be an over all arc that Gustainis is working with here. The first book is not really necessary to read before this one though it helps to become familiar with the main characters.

Also if you are a Dresden fan a certain pub owner in Chicago makes an appearance in this book to give Quincey and Libby some advice. That totally ROCKS!!!! ( )