"A well-paced and quirky love letter to classic crime fiction."
In the second installment of Helen Krummenacker’s Forever Detective series, a private investigator looks into a 20-year-old
murder while also adjusting to his new life as a vampire.
In the summer of 1947, Rafael Jones, a former cop and now a P.I., is hired by his friend Jimmy Clarke to debunk a rumor
that the upstate New York family home Jimmy recently inherited is haunted, so that he can more easily sell the property.
The rumor, however, is shown to be true when Rafael wakes up to a gruesome sight: a ghostly reenactment of a woman’s
murder. He’s no stranger to the supernatural; a few months before, he was turned into a vampire himself. He knows that to
help the woman’s spirit move on, he must identify her killer and bring him to justice. After establishing a friendly, albeit
limited, rapport with the woman’s ghost through music, and with the help of clairvoyant Methuselah “Medium” Brown, he
learns that her name is Phoebe Travers and that she was killed in 1925 by an ex-boyfriend who was the father of her
child—a mobster named Lorenzo Russo. Rafael, with the help of friends, former police colleagues, and long-distance
girlfriend Clara Thomas, gets to work tracking down Russo, finding new evidence, and going head-to-head with the mob.
As he investigates, he teaches himself how to control his new vampiric abilities and use them to his advantage—all while
resisting the urge to bite someone.
In this sequel to Forever’s Too Long (2019), Helen Krummenacker presents a highly
entertaining paranormal murder mystery. Rafael is a smart, compassionate protagonist who narrates his story with wry
humor, especially when it comes to his vampiric condition: “It was nice to be sitting next to a pretty woman without feeling
an itch around my teeth,” he says during his first interaction with Phoebe’s ghost. The cast of characters is impressively
diverse and well developed, and the story moves quickly while offering sharp and detailed descriptions. Fans of vintage
detective stories will enjoy this novel’s supernatural twist on a genre full of gruff detectives, organized crime, and femmes
fatales.
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