Kitty in the Underworld (Kitty Norville)
In the twelfth installment in Vaughan’s series, her hero, Kitty Neville, radio talk-show host and coleader of the Denver werewolf pack, is hoping to get a lot of work done on a book she is writing while her husband is away on business. When she goes to investigate the evidence of a strange lycanthrope in the pack’s territory, however, she is shot with a tranquilizer dart and kidnapped. When she awakes, she finds herself in an abandoned silver mine, the captive of a werewolf, a werelion, a vampire, and a wizard. Her captors believe she can help them put an end to Roman, Kitty’s foe in the “long game” who has been responsible for the deaths of people important to her. The oppressive dark and claustrophobic feel of the mine echoes what is going on in the mind of the imprisoned Kitty. Fans of Vaughn’s series will devour this and be ready for more. --Diana Tixier Herald