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HIGH CRIMES ON THE MAGICAL PLANE
by Kris Neri
Red Coyote Press, October 2009
224 pages
$16.95
ISBN: 0976673355


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"Trust me on this, all psychics are fake. If I believed that any of the crap I tossed around could really exist, it would turn my entire universe on its ear."

After that statement, every reader knows the foundation of the new Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty series. Samantha, fake psychic and faker Celtic goddess, notices an SUV full of literal clowns pulling away from the high-security building where her client, an ex-First Lady lives. It's also the home of a famous actress - one who is being stalked by a group calling itself Molly's Clowns.

Hoping to find some clue that she can take to the police and claim as an otherworldly message (a little TV time as the psychic helping the police never hurts) Samantha instead finds a trashed apartment, a missing celebrity, and a body in the closet. She runs to the FBI - this is serious, even if she still plans on trying to turn it into her advantage. But the advantage goes in a different direction when Samantha has the first real psychic vision of her life. Clear. Terrifying. Unmistakable.

Samantha is a fake. Special Agent Haggerty isn't. And she's thrilled to have someone she can channel visions onto to deflect suspicion away from herself.

HIGH CRIMES ON THE MAGICAL PLANE is the first in a new series by Kris Neri. It's an interesting setup, a twist on the openly magical (or decidedly nonmagical) characters of most supernaturals, what with one character claiming powers she does not have and the other hiding the ones she does. It will be interesting to see how this partnership develops over time.

The puzzle part of the plot is weak - halfway through, it's not that hard to guess who the criminal is and what the goal is. So this is a book for people who like characters - and Samantha is quite a character! - rather than people who want a tightly plotted mystery.

Reviewed by Linnea Dodson, October 2009

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