Waking the Witch(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　For the eleventh volume in her Women of the Otherworld series,
Armstrong shifts to a new narrator?the 21-year-old daughter of a
sorcerer and a witch, Savannah Levine?and takes the urban fantasy
conceit into rural Washington. Eager to prove herself as a sleuth,
Savannah takes up a case brought to her firm by a freelance PI, a
suave, telekinetic half-demon. Three young women have been murdered
in a small town north of Portland, and there are signs that an
occult ritual might have been involved. The two prime suspects are
the town?s resident golden child and the leader of a commune (or
cult, depending on whom you ask) for young runaways. Armstrong
writes with page-turningly lucid prose and outfits her heroine with
plenty of pluck, which she?ll need to navigate the handful of
handsome fellas who drop in for potential romancing. Despite the
occult angle and all manner of witches, demons, and other
supernatural types (no vampires, thankfully), this is first and
foremost a mystery, and a pretty decent one, with the magic mostly
coming in the form of cloaking spells and energy bolts employed to
bolster Savannah?s snooping skills. While this story is mostly
self-contained, any number of allusions to the massive backstory
and cast of characters will likely have newcomers tracking back to
flesh things out. Established fans, of course, will gobble it all
right up. –Ian Chipman

　　Columbus is a small, fading town, untouched by the
twenty-first century. But when three young women are found dead –
victims of what appear to be ritual murders – things start to get
very dark, and very dangerous …Private investigator Savannah
Levine can handle ‘dark and dangerous’. As the daughter of a black
witch, she has a lot of power running through her veins, and she’s
not afraid to use it. But her arrival in Columbus has not gone
unnoticed. Savannah may think she’s tracking down a murderer, but
could she be the killer’s next target? Of course she could always
ask her old friend (and half-demon) Adam Vasic for back up. But
Savannah has her own – very personal – reasons for keeping Adam
well away from Columbus. And in any case, she can rely on her own
powers. Can’t she …?