Demonized - Naomi Clark

Title: Demonized
Author: Naomi Clark


Format: Ebook provided by author for review


From Goodreads:
PI Ethan Banning is smoking too much, sleeping too little, and hearing voices. One voice, to be exact: the voice of the demon that possessed him on his last case. A voice that urges him to hurt, rape, kill, and Ethan doesn't think he has the strength to ignore it much longer. 

When his latest missing person case turns into a murder investigation, Ethan finds himself fighting not just demonic urges, but black magic, an incubus with a hidden agenda, and a client who just won't pay up. Luckily, Ethan's got a few friends on his side, like Detective Anna Radcliffe, and his trusty dog, Mutt. If Ethan can ignore the demon long enough, he might just solve this case before it kills him

Ahhh, Ethan Banning, we meet again…and it seems you are a bit worse for the wear this time around!  Man, it really must suck sometimes to be Ethan Banning.  Excellent Private Investigator, catching things most don’t.  But then, most don’t catch cacodaemons – in their body - either!

In Demonized Ethan is dealing with what happened to him during his time in Shoregrave with Yasmin Stoker.   You know when the story opens with a dead hooker in a bathtub full of ice that this isn’t an ordinary story!!

Ethan is battling a sort of demon possession from the cacodaemon who jumped in him in Afterlife.  Yasmin just couldn’t remove it completely.  And worse yet, this demon is a sick psycho of a demon, filling Ethan’s mind with horrible images and basically declaring war on him for the most part.  Sometimes he even manages to control Ethan enough to speak out loud. 

Ungrateful Dead - Naomi Clark

Title: Ungrateful Dead
Author: Naomi Clark

Format: Ebook provided by author

From Goodreads:
PI Ethan Banning wouldn't normally touch a haunting case. Mostly because he doesn't believe in ghosts. But when Charlie Mullen asks him to spend the night at a supposedly haunted morgue, Ethan figures, why not? He's broke and Charlie's offering double his normal rate, and that's good enough for Ethan.

But when a troublesome ghost really does show up, Ethan realises he's going to need more than a good supply of alcohol to get through the night

In this story we meet Ethan Banning, PI from Afterlife.  I know I am not alone in saying that I love Ethan Banning!  He is snarky and can be a bit mean sometimes.  But he is smart and witty, and much better at being a PI than he lets us all believe.   

In this short little intro to all that is Ethan, he’s sitting in a bar drinking when he is approached for a job.  It seems that the morgue is haunted by the ghost of a young woman who was murdered!

Ethan doesn’t believe in all that paranormal stuff (insert snort and giggle from me here) so he doesn’t really want to take this job.  But money is money, and we all need it.  So off he goes with Charlie to investigate.

This is just a short story, I can’t tell you too much without giving it away.  I will just say it is a must read because it is absolutely fabulous, and it serves as a nice little prequel introduction before reading Afterlife (one of the best books I’ve read this year!).  If you like a touch of horror and fright, a bit of snark, something akin to a zombie, and ghosts, then this is the story for you. 

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