Par For The Curse

Tony Mandolin Mysteries book 14

San Francisco’s only PI to the paranormal is back… and this time it’s personal. Tony Mandolin wakes up with a toothache from h***—literally. Someone turned one of his molars into a magical time-bomb set to blow his head into red mist.

Thanks to a quick-thinking bartender and a blood-forged pendant that’s running on fumes, Tony survives. Barely. While he’s still looking for whoever wanted him dead, Police Chief Monahan drags him into a new case: a U.S. Congressman impaled through and through with a nine-iron on the 18th hole of America’s snootiest country club.

The method is bizarre, the suspects are powerful, and the country-club set would rather die than talk to a gumshoe in a cheap suit.

With his pendant losing power, an ancient vampire who refuses to stay dead, a vengeful thaumaturge on the loose, and a crime lord who claims Tony keeps putting him deeper in debt, Tony has to track a killer who can rot a room full of mobsters into piles of ash in seconds—and who’s already proven they can get past his best wards.

Aided by his seven-foot tall, gourmet-cooking, ex-drag-queen partner Frankie, a witch girlfriend who believes in creative dismemberment, a drunken wizard who terrifies everyone (including Tony), a werebeagle with a nose for magic, and a German Shepherd pretending to be a service dog, Tony Mandolin is about to discover that some curses are very, very literal… and this one is coming for him next.

If you like wise-cracking PIs, modern magic gone very wrong, and mysteries served with a side of gallows humor, grab Par For the Curse today—book 14 in the bestselling Tony Mandolin urban fantasy series.

If your bookshelf has Jim Butcher, Richard Kadrey, Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire (but with werewolves), Elliott James, Benedict Jacka, Mur Lafferty, or early Charlaine Harris, Tony Mandolin is going to feel like coming home — only louder, bloodier, and with way more snark.