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Along Came a Demon
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Published: March 11, 2009
Words: 63139 (approximate)
Language: English
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I’m Tiff Banks and I see the violently slain. I’ve learned to live with that – in fact I’ve made a career out of it. The dead whisper to me and they never, ever forget the face of their killer. But when a dead woman breaks the rules of the afterlife to find her son, what seemed like a simple case becomes a race against time to find an international serial killer before he strikes again.Extended description
I'm told the dead are all around us. I wouldn't know about that, I see only the violently slain. They can be victims of hit-and-run, innocents caught in a cross-fire, the murdered. They whisper to me and they never, ever, forget the face of their killer. I've learned to live with my uncanny ability, in fact I've made a career out of it.The departed aren't the only supernaturals I see. No, they're not vampires or werewolves or fae - those things don't exist. We live side by side with what some call the Otherworldy. That's too much of a mouthful for me, I call them demons. If you saw them as I do, you'd know why.
Right now I'm trying to track down a missing six year-old boy whose mother was murdered. Or maybe she wasn't. To further complicate the case, Clarion PD gave me a partner I'd rather shoot than work with.
I can't tell them he's a demon.
They'd think I'm crazy.
I'm Tiff Banks. Welcome to my world.
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Review by:
Albert Robbins
on Sep. 12, 2011 :
Overall Feedback: So here I am with another wonderful author from the Facebook Group Indie Writers Unite. Linda is quite a personality and I was very interested in the book so without further ado here is the review. I am sure everyone has seen, heard of or been made aware of Ghost Whisperer and I am equally sure we all at least liked something about the show. One thing I am not sure of would be that everyone has heard of a series of book by Dean Koontz called "Odd Thomas." This story runs very similar to both. Although in Ghost Whisperer the main character sees all ghosts and attempts to give them reason to cross over. So I would say that it most resembles "Odd Thomas", and I do not say this to belittle this work of greatness. I say it to show how high I hold this book. It has evoked my mind and imagination in the same way as a Dean Koontz novel and people wonder why I like Indie books. Bravo Linda Bravo!
Point of View: You are Tiff and you get to live her life through her eyes. A good choice for this type of story.
Voice: I tried to determine the voice in this one but I was too wrapped up in the story to find it. I then sat and thought about it for a moment and decided that the voice, as it were, is the dry, witty humor of the author.
Character Development: So many characters so little time but Linda does well to draw you close to her imaginary friends and make them yours too.
Plot: I see dead people! What more can you ask from a plot. A kick butt heroine, dead people and demons. This will have you racing the pages by and wanting to dig into the next in the series, so please be warned and be prepared.
Dialogue: Did not really pay attention as I was too engrossed in the story so I say it must not have detracted and only added.
Pacing: One word... Smoking
Setting: So this is what happens in Utah besides skiing.
Continuity: Flawless from page to page, chapter to chapter and beginning to end
(reviewed the day of purchase)
Review by:
Penelope Frost
on Aug. 28, 2011 :
I stumbled across this book while looking for another, but damn I'm glad I did! This was such an amazing read. I enjoyed myself from beginning to end. I like the supernatural aspect, the characters, the storyline, the romance, the suspence - just everything about this! I read this book in one go, and I'm definitely starting on the next immidiately!
I can give it nothing short of 5 stars.
(reviewed the day of purchase)
Review by:
Shannon Esposito
on July 08, 2010 :
I'm so glad I discovered this book. I was in the mood for a good paranormal mystery and this went above and beyond my expectations. Great suspense plus I love Tiff-her sense of humor, all the trouble she gets in because of her "gift". It only took me two days to read, but that's because I squeezed it in every spare moment. It's addictive and I'm now going to go buy the next one!
(reviewed the day of purchase)
Review by:
LK Gardner-Griffie
on Sep. 25, 2009 :
I have been an avid mystery fan for much of my life. I read before going to sleep every night and the books that usually make up that reading material are mysteries of the cozy type. Agatha Christie, P D James, Elizabeth Peters, Ngaio Marsh, Sara Paretsky, Martha Grimes, and the list goes on. When I saw Linda Welch's psi-fi mystery, Along Came A Demon, I leapt at the chance to read and review it. I was not disappointed.
Tiff Banks, nicknamed the Ice Queen by the Clarion police department for her tall stature and ice blonde hair, works as a consultant for the police in murder cases. She has told them that she is a psychic, but in actuality, she sees dead people as flesh and blood and they whisper to her. Tiff, who hates to be called Tiffany because of the image that projects, was orphaned as a baby, grew up in a variety of foster homes, and always felt she was a little different than everyone else. Happier being by herself than with a group of people, Tiff left Utah as soon as she was able and went from place to place and job to job. Until, after landing in San Francisco, boom, out of nowhere she started seeing and being able to talk to dead people. She returned to Utah to the small town of Clarion in the hopes that there wouldn’t be too many murdered people trying to get her attention. Unfortunately for her, she moved into a house where there were two ghosts in residence, as well as two who lived on her street. So much for trying to get away from them.
Along Came A Demon starts with Tiff being told by Jack and Mel, her ghost couple, that there is a naked woman dripping on her front grass. Tiff is cranky that she has to deal with a dead person before she can even get her morning coffee.
“A naked wet woman in the garden. Dripping wet.”
I sighed and turned to lean against the counter. I would rather she were an escaped lunatic wandered into the neighborhood than what she really was. Although why she was wet on that chilly November morning was anyone’s guess.
“I’ve been watching her from the bedroom window,” Mel said, coming through the door from the hallway, mussing up her permanently mussed red hair with one hand. “She’s been standing there, wet, for half an hour.”
Not a disorientated stranger in the wrong back yard. Not an escaped loony. Worse. One of them. I sighed again. I did not want to deal with it that early in the morning. “She’ll have to wait till after I’ve had my coffee.”
Tiff was trying to figure out how the naked woman came to be on her grass as usually, the dead are bound to where they passed. Lindy Marchant passed away in the apartments behind Tiff’s house, and she is concerned about her son. Tiff promises to find out about her son so that hopefully, Lindy will leave her alone, as she doesn’t want to live with a naked woman in her orchard. The only problem is that once she checks with the Clarion police department, it appears that Lindy Marchant had no son.
Not willing to give up, Tiff requests to search the apartment. Under the refrigerator she finds a drawing by Lawrence, which is given to the police to goad them into searching for the missing child. So starts the twisted case which involves the missing child Lawrence, which blossoms into a nationwide case where over 200 boys born on November 9, 2002 had gone missing.
In addition to being able to see the murdered, Tiff can also see the otherworldly, whom she had heard about from her psychic friend, Lynn.
"Lynn was trying to be ethnically sensitive when she call them the Otherworldy. That was too much of a mouthful for me – I called them demons. Not that I thought they were creatures from Hell – I didn’t know what they were or where they came from. They could be aliens from outer space for all I knew. But with their pointed teeth and glimmering eyes, demon seemed a fitting description."
And a little later on, Welch provides some more description of her demons.
"I would never call a demon cute. Incredibly handsome. Charming. Deadly. Not to be trusted. According to Lynn, they did not blatantly lie but could do so by omission when it suited them. And you could ask them a question and they would answer in such a way that, without exactly lying, they didn’t give you the truth."
Tiff stays as far away from these demons as she can, but to her chagrin is partnered with Royal Mortenson, of the Clarion PD to work on the missing child case, and he is a demon. While wishing that she could shoot him instead of partnering with him, Tiff becomes suspicious of Royal, who has been moving from police department to police department, never staying too long in one location. She suspects that he may be involved in this missing children case from an inside perspective.
Linda Welch pens a engaging tale, full of action and adventure. A definite page turner full of twists to keep you guessing until the end.
(reviewed the day of purchase)