by Tanya Huff
From the blurb: It began with the call no daughter ever wants to get, the call that told private investigator Vicki Nelson her mother had died. Mrs. Nelson's coworker at the Queen's University Life Science Department told Vicki that the cause of death was a heart attack, and that they'd be waitin...
This is the fourth and strongest of Huff's series. This isn't the last, there's one more, Blood Debt, but this feels like the series conclusion with the last an afterthought. Like many works of urban fantasy, this involves a tough heroine who moves in a supernatural world. However, unlike characters...
If your mother calls your phone every hour for two days, and you refuse to answer, you don't get to whine when the last call is to let you know she's dead. I don't care if you had a bad day. Put on your big-girl panties and answer the damned phone! People don't try that hard to get in touch with you...