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Senior investigator Alison Goodnight of the Arenosa, Texas police department is called out to a grisly murder scene. The victim has been disemboweled, his face mauled. Zane Kerr is thrilled to be partnered with 6 foot tall, slim, pale blonde Elvish looking Goodnight whose old partner has just been promoted to Lieutenant. Strangely, half the police force of Arenosa are similar in appearance to Goodnight and claim to be related to each other. The only eyewitness to the crime is a derelict alcoholic who claims he saw a "hellhound" leaving the scene. Alison and her "family" are members of a werewolf clan, a long lived humanoid species who, despite legends to the contrary, don't actually change shape but during the "shift" are perceived as a Big Powerful Dangerous Life Form, which in Europe, Russia, and the United States, takes the shape and appearance of a wolf, but in Southeast Asia, is apparently a man-eating tiger. Goodnight and the other members of her clan try to solve this and the other murders that follow without letting the human members of the department know they have special powers. She tries to keep Kerr out of her way but he senses something, although at this point, he can't figure out what is different about Goodnight. Many years before he had purchased a strange very large original painting by Alison's grandmother. The painting, which he finds fascinating, is usually perceived as repellant and frightening by other humans. Just as she did in her series about the vampire policeman, Killough has created another fascinating alternate universe, just slightly off center from ours. Werewolves exist among us, but except under certain circumstances, they are benign creatures who just want to live quietly and do no harm. The publisher, Meisha Merlin is to be commended for printing these slightly skewed stories.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, March 2002
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