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Packs of Lies
- Paranormal Scene Investigations, Book 2
- Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"My name is Bonita Torres, and eight months ago I was an unemployed college graduate without a plan. Now I'm an investigator with the Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations team of New York. Pretty awesome, right?
"The Cosa Nostradamus, the magical community, isn't quick to give up its secrets, though. Not even to fellow members. Not even when it's in their best interests. So we've been busting our tails, perfecting our forensic skills, working to gain acceptance. The team's tight... but we have our quirks, too. And our Big Dog, Benjamin Venec... well, he's a special case, all right.
"But we can't give up. We're needed, especially when a case comes along that threatens to pit human against fatae. But one wrong move could cost us everything we've worked for...."
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- Margaret Sargent
- 10-12-20
Interesting story
This book was stronger and better than the first one. The only reason I completed the first one was because the story idea and background intrigued me. I’m happy to say that I’m going to be on the lookout for her next title.
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- Kandee
- 04-15-19
over repeated details
If you've read the first book be ready to hear all the details again, it repeats so many of the basic details of the world over and over again. What is current, how its harvested, natural vs human made. Some of it is word for word repeats and it gets a bit tedious.
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- Leanna
- 07-28-14
Great follow-up
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Excellent follow-up to the first book. Laura Anne Gillman has created another winning series that takes place in the Wren's world. In this installment, PUPI must solve a Cosa case to appease both fatae and humans. With only eight months of creating and implementing methodology for crime scene investigations, this seems like a tall order for the PUPI, but a challenge never stops them. This installment does a fantastic job of keeping the reader/listener interested and hoping for a new book in the series. Right story and right narrator make for a fun listen.
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- Lorraine Wood
- 02-24-21
a good listen.
a good listen into more of the characters and their stories. will listen to the next book.
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- 10-29-13
Returning this series.
The only good thing about this book is the narrator but she can't save it. The story goes from OK to awful with the second book. The plot is very poor and completely ridiculous in this one.
SPOILERS: After sleeping with a witness completely inappropriately in the first book we are supposed to accept that sleeping with a colleague in the small team, while intensely flirting with the boss is simply accepted, in the second. In reality anyone who caused the fallout this would be bring, in a team already struggling for professional credibility, would be intensely disliked and seen as a threat to the teams stability and possibility its continued existence.
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