Wraith (Zoe Martinique Investigation Series #1) by Phaedra Weldon

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Synopsis

First in an excitingly different and new paranormal series.

Zo‘ Martinique has turned her unusual ability into a career. When she's traveling, she can't be seen which makes her an ideal professional snoop. Industrial espionage, surveillance, whatever. But one night things get out of hand while she's outof- body. She witnesses a murder and a soul stealing, and discovers she has unwelcome company: Trench- Coat, a ghostly killer who can see and hurt her.

Teaming up with a blue-eyed police detective, she tries to solve the case and improve her love life. She also enlists the support of her psychic mother and the ghostly couple who haunt her house. And with murderers, kidnappers, and a desperate ex-porn star involved, Zo‘ needs all the help she can get.

Kirkus Reviews

In the first of an urban fantasy series, an astro-traveling private investigator, whose psychic mother is landlady to a witch and two gay ghosts, stalks an invisible murderer. After being raped, stabbed and left for dead, Zoe Martinique discovered that her spirit can leave her body-so she makes a living as a p.i., a Traveler invisibly snooping on illicit deeds and conversations. She's also incorrigibly curious, and one night when on a job, she witnesses a murder by a sinister figure she thinks of as Trench-Coat. The latter steals his victim's soul; worse, he notices Zoe, grabs her-and threatens to steal her soul amid irresistible promises of sexual ecstasy! Zoe snaps back into her body just in time, but the contact has changed her: She can now physically manifest while Traveling. She learns that the dead man's boss, Kobe Hirokumi, holds a powerful McGuffin belonging to shady televangelist Teddy Rollins, who sent Trench-Coat to get it back. But while eavesdropping on a conversation between Hirokumi and gorgeous detective Daniel Frasier-it's lust at first sight-Zoe barely avoids a trap set by Hirokumi's faceless seer. Despite tending to blurt things audibly while out of body and invisible, Zoe doggedly continues to investigate; clearly the bad guys know much more about the non-physical realms than Zoe. Complications ensue on several levels, as our heroine-still lusting and impulsive-finds that nothing is what it seems. Zoe's an appealing if occasionally irritating protagonist, and the plot mostly works despite the overcomplicated backdrop: a worthwhile debut that bodes well for disembodied adventures to come. Agent: Jodi Reamer/Writers House LLC

Biography

Phaedra Weldon was born in Florida and attended Georgia Southern University, where she launched a career in the graphic arts field. She has also had short fiction published in a number of anthologies and on online sites.