Name: Megan Cooper's review of Necromantia by Sheri Lewis Wohl
Item: Necromantia
Rating: 3
Author: Megan Cooper

Sheri Lewis Wohl

When seeing dead people is more than a movie tagline. Circe Latham’s secret has always set her apart from everyone, but these days she uses it to bring home those whose lives are stolen too soon. Alongside her search dog, Zelda, she is able to make a difference, and the chance to work a case with Deputy Sheriff Diana Erni is an exciting challenge. Until the case takes a deadly turn and her own life hangs in the balance. In order to save herself, Circe must do the one thing she swore never to do again: share her secret. Will her trust in Diana be strong enough to save her life or will she too fall victim to a killer?

Necromantia

Megan Cooper

A light paranormal read with a great premise and lots going on. Circe Latham has finally found a way to live with her gift by hiding in plain sight. Able to see the dead, she has become a K9 Search and Rescue worker who, with her GSD Zelda, specializes in finding bodies. It's actually a really cool idea - and even though Circe tends to see the ghost first, she lets Zelda make the actual "find". 

In Necromantia, we start of with a search that ends up with Circe and Zelda finding three bodies in a small part of a public park. There appears to be a serial killer at work in the area and they just found one of his hiding spots - and throughout the book, Circe and Zelda stumble across a few more. Honestly, I'd never leave the house if there was a better than 60% chance that I'd find a dead body on my run - but let's be honest, I wouldn't be leaving my house to go for a run in the first place.

The book has elements of paranormal, mystery, suspense, action and romance but doesn't really dig deep into any one of them which makes it a pretty light read. The main plot revolves around the discovering the bodies of the victims of a serial killer, the really fast romance between Circe and Diana (detective), a secondary romance between the secondary characters. Throw in a stalker, some arson, and the killer's POV and there's lots going on. Despite the fact that one of the main characters and a strong secondary character are detectives - there isn't much detail around the investigation and little detail around how the women have been killed, what lines of the investigation are being taken, etc. I think if one or two of the plotlines had been a bit more developed or detailed I would have been completely engaged. I wished Wohl had gone deeper into Circe's history/experience or the investigation or even into the killer's head to make a meatier read.

Wohl includes the POV of the killer as a way to increase the suspense and throw some red herrings. Normally, I hate when this device is used, but Wohl made it work and I think it was quite clever as it was intriguing to try to get a handle on what was driving him to killing and it added to the mystery with some good hints and red herrings.

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