As an ex-insurance agent, I'm pretty much all over anything that will spice up the tediousness that is insurance, so when the author asked me to review this I couldn't wait to get it started!
Luna Nightcrow has just wrapped up a case; finding an expensive and rare amulet for Charmed Mutual Life when their CEO Farad Alms requests her help again. One of their investigators has gone missing in Miami while investigating what appears to be a case of insurance fraud on a life insurance policy payout and Charmed Life is willing to pay her handsomely to find their missing investigator and determine if they've been defrauded out of $50k by a man named Kelvin Frost who may have faked his own death several years earlier. Luna wastes no time in getting down to Miami where she finds a tangled web involving a Paranormal Museum, a fictional character, and murder.
The mystery portion of this was absolutely fantastic, a complicated plot with a clever fraud case involving fake deaths and identity theft. I truly enjoyed all of the twists and turns the case took and found myself stumped by who the killer was more than once. It was fast-paced and kept me on the edge of my seat.
Some of the dialogue was great but a lot of it was awkward sometimes and just straight cringey at others. The dialogue really is the only thing holding this book back from being a four-star review.
Overall, I really enjoyed the mystery side of this, as an insurance agent and then broker I can understand how important it is to recoup the money lost on possible fraud, and turning that into a mystery/thriller series is an exceptional idea.
And thank you so much to James Blakely for access to his book in exchange for this review.
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