Rating: 4 stars out of 5
Zephariel, the Angel of Vengeance, Nick Klauson, nephew to Santa, Christmas magic, zombies in the school and a necromancer causing chaos…and at the center of it all—Mal.
Zephariel is the Angel of Vengeance and is tracking down his cousin Danjal for misuse of brimstone. When he walks into a bar and finds Nick Klauson drowning his sorrows, he is instantly drawn to him. Could this be his fated mate?
When Nick and Zeph join forces to deal with zombies in Mal’s school, sparks fly. Add in a demon, a wolf and a necromancer, and Sam and Bob have a hunt on their hands.
When I started reading this story, I had three books of the series in my possession and somehow I must have thought (I mark it up to holiday stress) that this was the first. Uh, no. Of course, I jump into the series at book four and once I started, I couldn’t stop. Why? Because if the rest of the stories are anything like this one, then Amber Kell and RJ Scott have an engaging cast of characters and an apparently intriguing linked group of mysteries at the heart of the End Street Detective Agency.
The Case of the Sinful Santa comes to the End Street Detective Agency,run by Sam, a man who refuses to accept his clearly paranormal genealogy and the many endearing, scary and wild beings that revolve around him, including his vampire lover, Bob. One of the things about coming into a series so late is that so many things are already established. That’s not necessarily a bad thing here. Sam and Bob are an official couple (not so in the beginning of the series) and have a vampire child, Mal (will backtrack to that story). This tale starts out with the focus on Zephariel (angel) and Nick Klauson, one of the many Klausons, Santa Claus is his Uncle and he is part of the family business.
Amber Kell and RJ Scott come up with an intriguing job for Nick that sort of makes sense, in a fantasy kind of way. Nick is in town because of a darkness that Santa noticed along his flight plan. Nick is there to take care of it. But there’s more to come. Up pops a ghastly disappearance/murder mystery to solve that brings not only Zeph and Nick together but the rest of the End Street Detectives into the case. I thought there was a nice balance between the fear/mystery and the love/romance going on here. Plus its not just the romance between Zeph and Nick but the ongoing issues that continue between Sam and Bob.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and characters, Zeph and Nick get their HFN which means we will probably see them again in this series and we get a peek at the next book to come…dragons my favorite. Only now I need to go backwards and see where it all started. Stay with me, I’ll be filling you in. Until then, if you are a lover of the supernatural or the paranormal, throw in a mystery or romance or two, this has the making of a series to delight you on every front. I know its doing that for me.
Cover art by Posh Gosh. I love the cover. It works mostly for Zeph. Nick is missing the frosty white hair and white complexion so that is a fail.
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Book Details:
Book Four in the End Street Detective Agency series
ebook, 1st Edition, 94 pages
Published November 29th 2013 by Totally Bound (first published November 28th 2013)
Original TitleThe Case of the Sinful Santa: End Street Detective Agency Series
ISBN 1781848548 (ISBN13: 9781781848548)
Edition LanguageEnglish
SeriesEnd Street Detective Agency
- The Case Of The Cupid Curse (End Street Detective Agency #1)
- The Case Of The Wicked Wolf (End Street Dectective Agency #2)
- The Case Of The Wicked Wolf (End Street Dectective Agency #2)
- The Case Of The Dragon’s Dilemma (End Street Detective Agency #3)
- The Case of the Sinful Santa (End Street Detective Agency #4)
- The Case of the Purple Pearl (End Street Detective Agency, #5)
- The Case of the Grieving Ghost by Amber Kell coming in 2016
- End Street Detective Agency Volume One (End Street Detective Agency #1-2)
- End Street Detective Agency Volume Two (End Street Detective Agency #3-4)