ASIN B01ADWRV3S moved to the most recent edition here When part-time private investigator Vox Swift gets called to the scene of a crime, she finds it’s no ordinary case. A dead elf, drugs, infidelity, and an old job tangle together and challenge Vox’s ability to solve the mystery. As the bodies pile up and the suspect list grows Vox has to decide who to trust – the beautiful new widow or the mysterious young mage. Sex, lies, magic, and murder … just a typical day in Thornbury. A cold blooded murder, a hot widow, and too many suspects… "The elf had been cut in two. Not a magical murder then, which was too bad. I would have felt more at home with a magical murder. You know where you stand with magic. And Thornbury’s rife with magic. Too much magic for one city, but not enough to explain this murder."

Vox Swift returns for a second mystery. This time Vox stumbles upon the body of a strange girl in a sparkly gold dress, dead in the library of one of the richest men in Thornbury. Who is she? Who killed her? "No one knew the girl in gold. She seemed the most improbable of murder victims, at least on the surface. But as happens in life and in murder cases, you follow a path of ideas, theories, wrong turns, wild guesses, and unexpected successes until you finally return to the starting point only to realize that wasn’t even the beginning. You start with a dead girl, sprawled on the floor of a rich man’s library. You start in the still silence of a Sunday morning amid dusty tomes and stained glass, and you see where it leads. With some luck, you find justice; if you’ve got smarts, you get to arrest the killer."