The Taken
Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was back when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Fifty years later, he's an angel, but that doesn't make him a saint. One small mistake has altered fate, and now he's been dumped back onto the mortal mudflat to collect another...
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Griffin Shaw used to be a PI, but that was back when gumshoes hoofed the streets . . . and he was still alive. Fifty years later, he's an angel, but that doesn't make him a saint. One small mistake has altered fate, and now he's been dumped back onto the mortal mudflat to collect another soul—Katherine "Kit" Craig, a journalist whose latest investigation is about to get her clipped. Bucking heavenly orders, Grif refuses to let the sable-haired siren come to harm. Besides, protecting her offers a chance to solve the mystery of his own unsolved murder—and dole out some overdue payback for the death of his beloved wife, Evie. Joining forces, Kit and Grif's search for answers leads beyond the blinding lights of the Strip into the dark heart of an evil conspiracy. But a ruthless killer determined to destroy them isn't Grif's biggest threat. His growing attraction to Kit could cost them both their lives, along with the answer to the haunting question of his long afterlife . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062064646 (0062064649)
ASIN: 62064649
Publish date: June 12th 2012
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Series: Celestial Blues (#1)
*Genre* Urban Fantasy Noir*Rating* 3.5-4*First Thoughts*The Taken is the story about two very unusual characters in Griffin Shaw and Katherine "Kit" Craig who end up being thrown together in order to solve a prostitution ring and the death of Kit's best friend. While Griffin is a Centurion who assis...
After Grif died, he became an angel tasked with shepherding newly killed souls to the afterlife. But a moment of mercy threatens the angels' secrecy, and as punishment Grif is forced to become human again. He can return to his celestial form only after he watches Katherine Craig die. But Grif find...
The number one question in Griffin Shaw's life is who killed both him and his wife Evie fifty years ago. Though he has found new love with rockabilly babe Kit, Evie continues to haunt his dreams. It's been four months since he saved Kits life and returned to the mudflat (read: earth) but he is no ...
*slight spoilers ahead*I have to say straight away that Celestial Blues is a very different series from what Miss Pettersson wrote previously, as in it's not an urban fantasy. I was expecting one and to my (pleasant) surprise discovered that The Taken was a sort of a murder mystery with slight paran...
I really like the first three books in the Signs of the Zodiac series (the next two are on my shelf; I've yet to acquire the last), so I was looking forward to Vicki Pettersson's new Celestial Blues series.But The Taken's plot is nothing new: Powerful and/or wealthy men run a prostitution ring invol...