Second book in an interesting series
Just finished reading “Devil May Ride,” Wendy Robert’s second book in the Ghost Dusters Mystery series. It was a fun quick read, but number two was much darker than the first book, “The Remains of the Dead.”
In this installment, Sophie, Zack and Jackie are helping out another crime scene business by cleaning up meth labs. Seattle is steaming in a heat wave and when Sophie takes a break from cleaning a lab to go outside, she hears a baby crying. She finds a newborn baby stuffed inside the body of a goat, and encounters his dead ghost-mother, covered in blood. Did I say this book was grim? It gets worse.
Sophie becomes involved with bikers, witches, missing money, protecting her hugely pregnant sister and oh yes, a few more ghosts. For some reason, Sophie annoyed me in this book because she was so … prickly. I was never sure why all the attitude and was, quite frankly surprised that she had any friends at all AND that Zack still lusted after her. She verged on being a ….itch and I don’t mean witch.
We finally find out why Brian, Sophie’s brother, killed himself but I didn’t buy the explanation. Several times I think the timeline was off – one minute is was the dead of night, the next sunlight was streaming and the pavement was streaming. May just be me – I confess I read very fast.
I will certainly read the next book in the series, out in December of 2009 and HOPE it’s more like the first one, light and funny. I trust Sophie will be a nicer person now that she’s living with Zack.
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