Ahira's Hangar

Kim Harrison has written a series of novels about a witch living in an alternate Cincinnati. On that world, there was an apocalypse of sorts when a genetically engineered virus wiped out a lot of the humans. Humanoids like vampires, witches, and other supernatural beings, none of them affected by the virus, then came out of the closet, so to speak, and helped out in the huge crisis. In the Cincinnati area most of the humans live in the city, and most of the other species (who came to be called Inderlanders) live in the Kentucky suburbs, which is called the Hollows. The humans have their police force, and the Inderlanders have their own.

In Dead Witch Walking Rachel Morgan, a beautiful young red haired witch, works for the Federal Inderlander Service as a runner. She brings in criminals of all sorts of species who have been accused of crimes. She is proud of being a white witch, and proud that she has never killed anyone in her dangerous line of work. But she doesn't get along with her boss, and decides to quit. Her problem? You can't get out of the Service alive, unless you have a hefty bribe. Undaunted, Rachel decides to leave anyway, and sets up a PI firm in the Hollows with a living vampire and a testy pixie. the novel tells of her struggle to survive and her search for evidence of one of Cincinnati's leading citizens being involved in iilegal drugs.

In The Good, the Bad, and the Undead Rachel attempts to track down the person murdering the dark witches of Cincinnati. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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I saw at the store yesterday that there is a new (fourth) book out on this series, A Fistful of Charms. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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I have finally found time to read the third and fourth books in Kim Harrison's series abotu a beautiful, tough-as-nails young witch living in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati.

In Every Witch Way but Dead, Rachel Morgan must find a way to face the price of making a bargain with a powerful demon. The demon kept his side of their bargain by helping Rachel defeat a powerful enemy and testifying in court so that the enemy goes to jail. Now Rachel must find a way to keep her side of the bargain - and somehow still retain her soul.

In A Fistful of Charms Rachel and her partner, the pixie Jenks, must travel to Michigan to rescue a pair of thieves that they know and care about. The thieves have stolen a cursed statue imbued with such powerful supernatural powers that the artifact could start a war between two species of Inderlanders. On top of it, Rachel must face some very unpleasant truths about her own personality, and must face some even more unpleasant truths about some people who are very important to her.

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Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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The fifth book in Kim Harrison's series about Rachel Morgan was very good.

I do not want to get into heavy spoilers, but an important secondary character, who was very important to the primary characters, dies But the way she handles it, and the aftermath of that event and the way the event effects the main characters is handled very very well.