The Night Child by Jess Battis is the first of five
novels in the OSI series that I have been mentioning in several of my previous
posts. This is the book that hooked me
to this series. I mentioned in an
earlier post to this book is a crime paranormal mystery published in 2008. I thought this novel was very entertaining.
The point of
view is in first person by the main character, Tess Corday. She works for the CORE, which is an organization
that helps solves crimes done by the people in the mystical supernatural world
in order to keep normal humans from discovering their existence. Tess Corday is an Occult Special
Investigator, who mostly solves murders of the supernatural people or that they
have committed.
Tess’s whole
world is changed when she meets Mia Polanski, a thirteen year old girl, who
comes up while they are investigating the death of a vampire. Mia’s parents had died when she was younger
and was living with her aunt, Cassandra. Cassandra is killed off about half way through
the novel by a Vailoid demon. Tess and
her best friend, Derrick Siegel, get to know Mia throughout the novel and take
her in when they find out she doesn’t have a place to go. This begins their new dysfunctional family.
The Night Child really grabbed my attention from the
start. I highly recommend for those who like murder mysteries and like the
supernatural. It was an excellent read.
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