Rising Moon
by Lori Handeland

Release Date: 3rd Oct 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillian
ISBN: 978 0 3304 6264 8
RRP: £6.99

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Trashy paranormal fiction featuring werewolves (well, towards the end of the book anyway)...

If you are into the sordid details of sex and all that that implies (discussions on contraception and STDs), then you won't flinch much at Rising Moon. However, if despite being a lover of the paranormal and not minding a little bump in the night of another kind, you prefer that bump to be manifest as an art form - you may find your sensibilities somewhat trounced.

Anne Lockheart is a PI. Coming from a self-confessed 'upper-middle-class' background, this would at first seem at loggerheads with her upbringing, but when you factor in a missing younger sister - it's not difficult to stretch the imagination that far. It is on her vigil for said missing sister, which has been going on for over 3 years, that Anne finds herself in possession of a picture seemingly showing her sister outside a jazz club (more like a seedy bar) in New Orleans - so of course, she immediately ups and goes there. Inevitably, the owner is inexplicably handsome and so begins an unlikely dalliance, in spite of (or because of) his blindness. But no one is as they seem, or rather they are exactly what you suspect them of being.

There are paranormal slants to the storyline: eventually it comes out that there are werewolves in New Orleans, and there is some devolution into the ins and outs of Voodoo, but it takes a backseat for much of the book. Unfortunately, when the werewolves take centre stage, you almost wish they hadn't. It's all a bit theatrical, a bit feeble and the sudden intervention of a secret organisation created during the Second World War in Nazi Germany all gets a bit much. In fact, the story is wrapped up in a neat little bow within the final few pages, as though the author somehow got bored of her own story and couldn't be bothered to finish it properly.

With so much choice out there in this specialised genre, it is understandable that it can be difficult to rehash the same kind of storyline over and over and still find an original angle, but Rising Moon is a flop. I would read Karen Chance instead.

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