All her dour, black clothes were a false front, like a Wild West building in a Hollywood film! And underneath was all this. Hadley seems to see right through him, calling him on his easy lies and manipulations, and Lowe can't stop looking at her, the closer he looks at her, especially when he catches a glimpse of some of the things she hides about herself Ridiculously unfair that an opportunitist loot-hound could be so blindingly, roughishly handsome. The smooth-talking Lowe runs straight into Hadley Bacall, an Egyptian scholar whose expertise and affinity for Egyptian artifacts endangers Lowe’s latest scheme to profit from his discoveries. He arrives in San Fransisco with a valuable amulet to sell and powerful enemies to placate. Lowe is world-traveling rougue, an Archaeologist, part treasure hunter, part con artist.
In Grim Shadows, Winter’s younger brother, Lowe returns to San Fransisco. When Winter is cursed by a rival to attract deathly specters he turns to Aida an independent and aloof traveling medium, who not only can see the spirits but repel them. In Bitter Spirits we were introduced to the head of the Magnusson clan, Winter, the hulking Swedish bootlegging king of San Fransisco. Bennett built a distinct paranormal world where the glittering flappers & aristocracy of bootlegging era rub shoulders with witches, spiritualist, herbalists & mediums while remaining largely unaware of the existence of zombies, ghosts, and ancient death specters. The Great San Fransisco earthquake of 1906 is still part of the popular memory and the scars it left on the residents and landscape of the city is well established. Part paranormal mysteries, part historical romances these novel have an incredible sense of place and time. Set in 1920’s San Fransisco, Jenn Bennett’s Roaring Twenties series novels are atmospheric, lush and engrossing. I loved Bitter Spirits and I was very eager to have a chance to read the second novel in the series, Grim Shadows.
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