When disembodied feet start turning up, all lefties, Alex Craft is called in by the Nekros City Police Department to give her take on the situation. Her business Tongues for the Dead fills a niche in the market (how else to find out where Great Aunt Selma hid the silver?) But trying to raise an entire spirit from such a small footie remnant is beyond her skills. Then the fae get involved, threatening her with all sorts of mischief should she not drop the case; and then seemingly random attacks by constructs (a very odd mixture of witch and fae magic) start targeting Alex and her friends.

Her old pal (and wanna-be lover) Death is showing up all moony-eyed and she hasn't heard from Fae Investigation Bureau agent Falin Andrews since their night of mattress- romping. Then again, with a serial killer (or at least a serial amputator) on the loose she has bigger things to worry about than her love life.

GRAVE DANCE has got to be one of the ten best urban fantasies I've read. Since I am a voracious reader, that means they have beaten at least seventy others to hit my top ten list. Alex is funky, funny, and far from invulnerable. Her special gifts are powerful but provide little to no defense against the enemies she comes up against, which makes for a rollercoaster ride in book form. Her more mundane friends ground the story firmly in reality while the dangers approaching from the lands of the Fae as well as the ghosts her talents attract brings an eerie edge to the tale. Price has written a well-balanced story with GRAVE DANCE, the second in the Alex Craft series (after Grave Witch). Her writing style has me hooked and I plan to pick up the books in her other series, Haven, while I wait for more.

Book Summary

Whoever said dead men tell no tales obviously never met Alex Craft.

After a month spent recovering from a vicious fight with a sorcerer, grave witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil thanks to the disappearance of Fae Investigation Bureau agent Falin Andrews and a shocking “L” word confession from Death himself, Alex is eager for the distractions of work. But her new case turns out to be a deadly challenge.

The police hire Alex to consult on a particularly strange investigation in the nature preserve south of Nekros City. The strange part: There are no corpses, only fragments of them. A serial killer is potentially on the loose, and Alex has no way to raise a shade without a body, so she’ll have to rely on the magic of others to find leads. But as she begins investigating, a creature born of the darkest magic comes after her. Someone very powerful wants to make sure the only thing she finds is a dead end—her own.

Read an Excerpt