The Undead Pool

Kim Harrison has been writing a series set in Cincinnati and revolving around the character of Rachel Morgan for a while now.  Long enough for Rachel to go through some seriously life changing events.  Rachel lives in a world that went through a catastrophic epidemic that decimated human population.  After it the “supernatural” type creatures came out of the closet (so to speak) because they were needed.  At the start of the series Rachel is a witch working for an investigative service with a pixie and a living vampire (someone who’ll turn into a vampire once they’re dead) as partners.  Twelve books later, in The Undead Pool, she has morphed into a day walking demon, with her original partners as her business partners (& friends) and with a complicated romantic relationship with an Elf.  Here she must stop a plot to kill all the undead vampires in Cincinnati, figure out what the story is with the Elves’ Goddess, and cope with all manner of tricky issues.

I have enjoyed Harrison’s series for a while now.  Her books tell interesting stories and can be read as stand alone titles yet the whole series has an organic flow to it so that it even makes sense (so to speak) that Rachel has changed the way she has.  Recommended for readers of urban fantasy books.