The Forever Detective

Rafael Jones’ love of adventure took him into police work, military service, and finally a career as a private eye. But when his first couple of cases combine to drop him into deep trouble, can his sense of adventure survive? For that matter, can he? A practical man with a kind heart, he never expected to encounter supernatural evil threatening the people he cares about.

Rafael Jones is still learning about his new diet, powers, and limitations when he’s asked to certify that a house isn’t haunted. It turns out to have the ghost of a murdered flapper. Now he has to locate the missing gangster who killed her, the magic mirror the man used to disappear, protect his client, stop a new string of murders.

Rafael Jones is always a little out of his depth in rural settings, but he's not just a detective, he's also undead. But he can't ignore the call from the Saratoga County coroner when she mentions the bite marks found on several drowning victims during the summer of 1947. But will his developing powers and quick wits be enough to deal with something old, powerful in magic, and completely cursed?

Forever Festive is an urban fantasy historical mystery. At the end of 1947, a private eye is asked to find a girl who is being hidden from her guardian angel. He's also trying to spend the holidays with his folks and, with the help of his girlfriend, hide his secret transformation from them. The more he investigates, the more he finds that he is also caught in a web of magic.