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Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison

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Description: Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves, banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both witch and bounty hunter--and lived to tell the tale. But she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now. Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black magic, her best hope is life imprisonment--at worst, a forced lobotomy and genetic slavery.Only her enemies are strong enough to help her win her freedom, but trust comes hard when it hinges on the unscrupulous tycoon Trent Kalamack, the demon Algaliarept, and an ex-boyfriend turned thief My Review: As the novel begins we find Rachel loafing around with few jobs to her name and even fewer dollars.  We find she and Ivy shopping on the far side of town, the only place where Rachel can gain access after her shunning.  Suddenly a woman approaches Rachel and without properly identifying herself attempts to drag Rachel off.  Rachel does not comply, of course, and we find ourselv...

Demon Hunts (Walker Papers 5) by C.E. Murphy

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Description: Seattle police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to be consumed by evil. Literally. She's proven she can handle the gods and the walking dead. But a cannibalistic serial killer? That's more than even she bargained for. What's worse, the brutal demon can only be tracked one way. If Joanne is to stop its campaign of terror, she'll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World, a shamanistic plane of magic and spirits. Trouble is, Joanne's skills are no match for the dangers she's about to face—and her on-the-job training could prove fatal to the people she's sworn to protect…. My Review: After finishing Murphy’s last novel, Walking Dead, I swore to myself I wouldn’t bother reading her series until it was finished and I could read it through – book one to whatever. Well that didn’t quite work out. Due to my having a lot more free time than usual (read: unemployed) I decided to pick up...