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Synopsis:
New York, 1899, and the police department’s best ally is the secret Ghost Precinct, where spirits and psychics help solve the city’s most perplexing crimes . . .
There’s more than one way to catch a killer—though the methods employed by the NYPD’s Ghost Precinct, an all-female team of psychics and spiritualists led by gifted young medium Eve Whitby, are unconventional to say the least. Eve is concerned by the backlash that threatens the department—and by the discovery of an otherworldly realm, the Ghost Sanctuary, where the dead can provide answers. But is there a price to be paid for Eve and her colleagues venturing beyond the land of the living?
Searching for clues about a mortician’s disappearance, Eve encounters a charismatic magician and mesmerist whose abilities are unlike any she’s seen. Is he a link to mysterious deaths around the city, or to the Ghost Sanctuary? Torn between the bonds of her team and her growing relationship with the dashing Detective Horowitz, Eve must discern truth from illusion and friend from foe, before another soul vanishes into the ether . . .
Kindle Edition
Published October 15th 2019 by Rebel Base Books
A Sanctuary of Spirits carries on from its predecessor in what is an effective continuation to the urban-murder mystery series. Written with a cohesive manner, the plot acts as an overarching force between the two existing novels, in order to develop its dynamic nature.
The characters in the novel continue to be effective, with deliberate and intricate relationships and a depth that astounds from a YA novel. Eve, who can communicate with the dead, the Jewish Detective (no, this isn't the start to a bad joke), and a murderer on the loose makes for an alternate take on history, assisted along by the urban-supernatural mystery that is Eve. By mixing these themes together, we get a novel that defies that traditional confines of a Historical Fantasy.
The series absorbs the reader into its folds, and carries them along on a journey that is entertaining, and thoughtful.
I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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