Category: Fantasy Type: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781910510278
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Detective Inspector Leah Bishop and her Victorian selkie partner Dorian Grey investigate supernatural crime in Scotland's city of culture.
Detective Inspector Leah Bishop accepts a transfer to the Glasgow branch of Interpol. She soon discovers her fellow officers are monsters from folklore, and they have recruited her to help them investigate the first serial killing of faeries.
CALEDONIA is an extremely diverse world reflecting everyday life in Glasgow, with characters of various races, religions, and sexualities, bringing much-needed representation to fantasy fiction.
Caledonia - a rich tapestry
Just finished reading Caledonia and what I am most struck by is how steeped the story is in texture. The environments are clearly voiced by an author who has walked the same roads painted into the story telling and it is a tactile experience. The depth and intriguing plot development wrapped around her knowledge of folklore keeps me wanting to know more and more about this world that I knew nothing about. Tying that old world into a modern day crime/mystery drama is a lot of fun and we get to experience it along with the main character, Leah, as she blends her human experience as a police officer and a person with a painful past with her self described usually impractical knowledge of Scottish Folklore. All of the characters are richly inked into the page and even the supporting characters have a lot of depth and their stories often bend into wildly unexpected twists and turns. I highly recommend giving this a read and I hope for more in this series and from this author in the future.
...come, be enchanted by the Selkies and Faer Folk in an unusual crime setting...
...I’m totally biased about this book because I was born and bred in Glasgow, where the story is set... notwithstanding that, readers with no knowledge of the city or its tough reputation will appreciate the gritty characterisation of the setting as much the players in the narrative... it is superbly imaginative and clever of the author to wrap the present-day human heroine, Leah Bishop into scenarios with Selkies, the Faer Folk and a modern vampira... all done with admirable credibility... murders of the Faer by one of their own kind is uncommon, and Bishop’s travails and eventual solving of the crimes is superbly handled... the colour and delicacy of the unconscionably beautiful male Selkies is a constant delight as the chapters unfold... regardless of whatever genre is your usual... this tale will tempt you all the way through.... most enjoyable...
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