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Witch Hunt: An Urban Fantasy Mystery (Preternatural Affairs) Paperback – January 3, 2014

by S M Reine (Author)
4.1 out of 5 stars 3,162
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There are scratches on Cèsar Hawke’s arms, a discharged Glock on his coffee table, and a dead woman in his bathtub. Yeah, maybe he brought the waitress home for some fun—he was too drunk to remember it—but he knows for a fact that he didn’t kill her. He’s an agent with the Office of Preternatural Affairs. He doesn’t hurt people. He saves them. The cops disagree. Now Cèsar is running. Isobel Stonecrow speaks with the dead. She brings closure to the bereaved and heals broken hearts. But when she talks to the wrong spirit, the OPA puts a bounty on her head. Tracking down Isobel is the last case assigned to Cèsar before he bolts. If he finds her, he can prove that he didn’t kill that waitress. He can clear his name, get his job back, and bring justice to all those wronged families. She’s just one witch. He’s bagged a dozen witches before. How hard can one more be?
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    Preternatural Affairs
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    232 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    January 3, 2014
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    5 x 0.53 x 8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1494879190
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 3, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1494879190
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1494879198
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.53 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Hi everyone! My name is Sara, and I'm the New York Times Bestselling Author of urban fantasy known as SM Reine.

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FYI: I am a super-prolific author of many series, most of which occur in the same universe. Characters and events overlap. It's sort of like how Iron Man and Captain America have their own movies, but sometimes get together for the Avengers. You can start with any of my series that look interesting to you, or you can read all of them!

I recommend reading The Descent Series, the Cain Chronicles, The Ascension Series, A Fistful of Daggers, War of the Alphas, and The Mage Craft Series for the "core" story of my books.

Happy reading!

List of my series:

A FISTFUL OF DAGGERS (ongoing)

Lonesome Paladin

Spellsmoke

Hell's Hinges (coming January 2019)

THE MAGE CRAFT SERIES (completed)

Cast in Angelfire

Cast in Hellfire

Cast in Faefire

Cast in Balefire

Cast in Godfire

WAR OF THE ALPHAS (completed)

Omega

Beta

Alpha

Pas

SEASONS OF THE MOON (completed)

Six Moon Summer

All Hallows' Moon

Long Night Moon

Gray Moon Rising

THE CAIN CHRONICLES (completed)

New Moon Summer

Blood Moon Harvest

Moon of the Terrible

Red Rose Moon

Darkmoon

Of Wings and Wolves

Alpha Moon

THE DESCENT SERIES (completed)

Death's Hand

The Darkest Gate

Dark Union

Damnation Marked

Dire Blood

Defying Fate

Paradise Damned

THE ASCENSION SERIES (completed)

Sacrificed in Shadow

Oaths of Blood

Ruled by Steel

Caged in Bone

Lost in Prophecy

Torn by Fury

Sins of Eden

TAROT WITCHES (completed)

Caged Wolf

Forbidden Witches

Winter Court

Summer Court

PRETERNATURAL AFFAIRS (completed)

Witch Hunt

Silver Bullet

Hotter than Helltown

Shadow Burns

Deadly Wrong

Ashes and Arsenic

Once Darkness Falls

Bitter Thirst

The Road to Helltown

Wretched Wicked

DANA MCINTYRE MUST DIE (completed)

Drawing Dead

Kill Game

Cashing Out

Suicide Queen

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claudette valliere
5.0 out of 5 stars Cezar Hawke, magic and one good read.
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2014
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Pretty darned good.

This one starts with Cezar Hawke an agent with the Preternatural Affairs Dept that a dark part of the FBI. His Agency handles all preternatural occurances in the area. They always have loads to do and no one knows about them or those they hunt.

Hawke is a big guy. He never take himself to seriously. He's funny and can laugh at himself. He loves his job and is very good at it.

Hawke wakes one morning after one hell of a night of drinking and hot sex with Erin Karswell, a waitress he's been trying for months to date.

Hawkes apartment is a mess and Erin is dead in his bathroom bathtub. Cezar can't remember what the hell happened.

There is also a glock on a table. Its not his.

Hawke calls Suzy a good friend and fellow PA agent. He assumes his agency will respond and take care of everything and investigate. Its what they do.

The police show up and he knows he didn't call them. Who did? Who knew they even needed to be called?

Hawke's arrested and taken to the station where he's interrogated by a couple of very tough and very good detectives.

Hawke is beginning to believe he's being thrown under the bus by his agency at least thats how he sees it. They haven't called or shown up at the station something they would have already done under normal circumstances.

Hawke decides that he need to escape so he can try to find out what the hell happened and who killed Erin. He knows he didn't.

He escapes, rather easy for him as he's a witch with some pretty amazing powers. He's not all powerfull but its enough to get him out of the station.

He goes to see Suzy. She tells him to get the hell out of town. Does he? Hell no. He then proceeds to land in one hell of a mess.

So begins one damned fine read.

This one has Cezar, Suzey, a woman named Isobel who can talk with ghosts, Helltown, a couple of Union thugs who try to kill them both, magic, Hawke's brother Domingo who's also a witch, the Silver Needles, revenge, murder, ghosts, Hawkes boss Fritz and one hell of a good read.

Five Stars and then some.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Better than I expected and the end totally surprised me
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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Huh, I liked it. I was hooked once Cesar was taken to jail and Suzy said no one was coming to get him out. I couldn't wait to see where the story would take me. How was he going to get out of this?

After waking in his apartment with dim memories of the prior night, Cesar goes to the bathroom to get dressed for work and finds a dead body in his bathtub. He knows who she is and why she was there, but nothing clear on what happened after leaving the Pit nor how she ended up dead in his house. One thing he knew, he could not have killed her. He knows he needs help, so calls his partner to let her know that the cops where coming and that he was innocent. And here is where it gets interesting. The fact that people who should know him are doubting his innocence. After learning no one is coming to free him, he decides that he'll need to get himself out of this mess and find justice for Erin.

At this point, I'm excited to see where this goes and then laughed when I realized that yep, like any normal person, he made mistakes and was kind of clueless as to how to go about clearing his name. With some twists and turns and finding himself not sure who he could trust, Cesar almost wishes he had just run when Suzy told him to.

I definitely did not see where this went, and admit that he was a very believable character led astray by a beautiful woman, almost killed, betrayed by the organization he trusted, just to find nothing was what he thought. I am still unclear as to how Cesar did not remember what happened in his apartment. Was he drugged? Other than that, this was one of those books that kept me up to the wee hours trying to finish it as I just wasn't sure what the heck was going on.
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TKnite
3.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable but Somewhat Lacking Story
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2014
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I found this book enjoyable but a bit of a letdown.

First off, the plot got increasingly convoluted as time went on. It started off as the simple “I’ve been framed for murder” plot, but it became harder and harder to follow as the story progressed. There was too much flip-flopping on which characters were allies and not, and whether or not something had actually happened, and…there were places I got lost and couldn’t figure out for the life of me what I supposed to think about a certain event.

Secondly, I didn’t like how the story drops me into the middle of a complex setting without giving me time to adjust. I didn’t really feel anything for most of the characters because the story drops us right into the middle of Cesar’s issues with zero opportunity to learn about his life. He says certain characters should mean certain things — friends, bosses, coworkers, etc. — but I didn’t actually feel any connections to them because I had no opportunity to meet them.

The intermittent appearances of most of the characters didn’t help. The book would let me start to get to know a character, and then Cesar would leave that character’s company, and the next time we came around to that character, Cesar would be looking at him/her in a different light from before, and then I wouldn’t know what to think. It was kind of irritating. I couldn’t get an accurate read on anybody. I didn’t who I was supposed to care about.

Third, I found the pacing a bit wonky at times. It gets way too fast at some points, and that certainly didn’t lend to my understanding of the frankly confusing plot.

Fourth (and finally), Cesar could not stop talking about how hot and sexy the women around him were. Yes, every woman was super sexy and gorgeous and apparently attracted to Cesar. God, I hate it when it authors do that. The protagonist is on the freaking run after being framed for murder, and yet, of course he stops to spend a copious amount of time thinking about how nice the boobs and butts of all the female characters are. Not to mention the gratuitous scantily-clad women scenes. Really?

I mean, if there was a single female character that Cesar liked who came off as sexy? Fine. Cool. But every single one?

Anyway, besides all of those things mentioned above, this was a fairly enjoyable story. There was plenty of action and a lot of good world building (albeit too much of it was crammed into fast-paced scenes). Cesar, despite his shortcomings, was a fun character to follow with a funny personality. The writing was, overall, pretty good. Snappy. Sarcastic. The kind of narration I generally enjoy.

This was a quick and easy read (it’s pretty short), but it had a few flaws that ticked me off.
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diane
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this author
Reviewed in Canada on June 4, 2018
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As always a very good read.
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carrie
5.0 out of 5 stars leading man!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2018
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I thoroughly enjoyed this story and loved the fact there was a leading man (who is snarky instead of a female lead).
It's well written with some laughs as well as edge of the seat moments.
The characters are great with some enjoyable traits, Cezar who tries to keep everyone happy with his snarky humor, Suzy who only seems happy when shes giving Cezar a hard time and Isobel who at first glance is scary!
The storyline flows really well with a fast pace and lots happening.
A very enjoyable read, I can't wait for the next book....
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Ashifa Naikwadi
3.0 out of 5 stars Ashifa Naikwadi
Reviewed in India on July 16, 2017
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Good book to read, too much twist to take at once. But mind catching n nicely written. Give a try
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Nurelf
5.0 out of 5 stars giallo e paranormale
Reviewed in Italy on March 20, 2015
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Brillante. In una fase in cui sono un po' stufa del solito protagonista maschio alpha, e di trame dopate da contenuti hot, questo romanzo è stata una piacevole lettura. Amo i gialli, quindi arrivare alla fine del libro senza avere idea di come siano andate davvero le cose, è un buon segno per me. E amo anche il paranormal e devo dire che, seppur parliamo sempre di streghe, demoni e necromanti, in qualche modo l'autrice riesce a caratterizzarli in maniera originale. Lo stile è buono e l'editing curato. Insomma per me 5 stelline se le merita tutte. Ovviamente non potendo resistere alla curiosità di sapere come finisce fra César e Isobel e quali nuove avventure affronterà la nuova divisione, vado diligentemente a scaricare il secondo libro.
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casara98
5.0 out of 5 stars Another brilliant book by a brilliant author.
Reviewed in Australia on June 23, 2014
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Have read many books by this author now and not one book has disappointed.

Highly recommended. I loved the author's series of books as well as the stand alone ones.

Congratulations SM Reine, another wonderful book.
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