by Kim Harrison
Part of The Hollows, book 0.2
First published 2011
Detective Ivy Tamwood finds herself stripped of her homicide cases and stuck chasing street criminals through Cincinnati. The living vampire now spends her nights dealing with trolls and pixies instead of murderers. Her punishment gets worse when the department assigns her a rookie partner who happens to be an earth witch. Rachel Morgan represents everything Ivy wants to avoid in a colleague. Their partnership starts with immediate friction as both women struggle to work together. Then a coven of witches begins systematically killing werewolves across the city. The murders force Ivy and Rachel to put aside their differences and hunt the killers together. Rachel proves she can handle herself in dangerous situations despite being new to detective work. The investigation pulls them deeper into Cincinnati's supernatural underworld. As they track the murderous coven, both women discover their partnership might be more significant than either realized. Their future holds more supernatural threats and dark magic than they expect.
Genres: mystery, fantasy, detective, paranormal, urban-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, partnership
Setting: Cincinnati
169 pages · Hardcover · Del Rey
Content warnings: violence