Book 36, 2016
May. 21st, 2016 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeToday, I completed the book Spellcasting in Silk, which is the most recent release in author Juliet Blackwell's "Witchcraft Mystery" series.
Once again, Lily is tabbed by the SFPD to look into another "woo-woo" case. Detective Romero asks her to check out a botanica shop, where odd things have been happening. Lily goes to the shop, only to have items fly off of shelves and crash onto the floor. She can't quite figure out what's happening, but she believes it has something to do with the owner, a practitioner who has been arrested as a person of interest in the suicide of a young woman who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Lily goes to visit the woman in prison, and she doubts that Ursula had anything to do with the death. Ursula takes the opportunity to implore Lily to find her missing granddaughter, Selena, and take care of her. Lily is convinced that the suicide, Ursula's arrest, and Selena's disappearance are all connected, and the common factor seems to be a recently-deceased woman whose home Lily visited in a search for vintage clothing for her shop.
In addition to the mystery, Lily must deal with unfamiliar feelings of jealousy where her boyfriend, Sailor, is concerned, the return of ex-boyfriend, Max, in her life, and the ever-present Aidan Rhodes.
The story moved along at a good pace, and the ending was both surprising and satisfying.
Favorite line: "I swear, it's like puttin' socks on a rooster."
Five stars!
*****
Once again, Lily is tabbed by the SFPD to look into another "woo-woo" case. Detective Romero asks her to check out a botanica shop, where odd things have been happening. Lily goes to the shop, only to have items fly off of shelves and crash onto the floor. She can't quite figure out what's happening, but she believes it has something to do with the owner, a practitioner who has been arrested as a person of interest in the suicide of a young woman who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Lily goes to visit the woman in prison, and she doubts that Ursula had anything to do with the death. Ursula takes the opportunity to implore Lily to find her missing granddaughter, Selena, and take care of her. Lily is convinced that the suicide, Ursula's arrest, and Selena's disappearance are all connected, and the common factor seems to be a recently-deceased woman whose home Lily visited in a search for vintage clothing for her shop.
In addition to the mystery, Lily must deal with unfamiliar feelings of jealousy where her boyfriend, Sailor, is concerned, the return of ex-boyfriend, Max, in her life, and the ever-present Aidan Rhodes.
The story moved along at a good pace, and the ending was both surprising and satisfying.
Favorite line: "I swear, it's like puttin' socks on a rooster."
Five stars!
*****
