Review: From Underground Book Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
Rania Aqualina is a Marlboro-smoking, Twinkie-eating, gun-toting cop in the "bone dry frontier town" of Dirtwater. She's also a mermaid.When another mermaid turns up dead in Dirtwater, Rania has to discover not only who killed her, but why a mermaid with Rania's name tattooed on her thigh came to town in the first place. In the middle of an investigation that includes stealing the body, performing a secret autopsy, and getting knocked out by a mysterious weapon that destroys hearing and brains, Rania and her mother receive an invitation to attend a royal wedding in their underwater home, the magical realm of Aegira. There, the mystery deepens--both literally and figuratively. Another mermaid is missing and, with few exceptions, the close-knit Aegirans haven't noticed. Certain that finding the missing girl will depend on her solving the other mermaid's death, Rania returns to Dirtwater to complete her investigation. The stakes get even higher and more personal when the sound weapon is used on her friend and "dirt-dweller" ex-lover, Doug, almost killing him and possibly incapacitating him for life. Then, her best friend, Lecanora, disappears. As if that's not enough, she can't stop thinking about Carragheen, the dark, angry son of Aegiran's High Priest Kraken, even though she isn't sure if he's an ally or an enemy....read more at UndergroundBookReviews(dot)com