Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective

Paperback, 264 pages

English language

Published Oct. 25, 2013 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

ISBN:: 978-1-4935-9100-8

(1 review)

“The temperature in the room suddenly dipped from seventy to forty degrees. Lowe felt a suffocating claustrophobia, as if he were being forced inside a coffin. He clutched the towel, breathing hard, his heart thumping. By now it was so cold he could see his exhaled breath. Footsteps echoed over the bathroom tiles, slow and measured. They stopped just beside him. A plume of breath floated toward him. With a cry of terror, he bolted for the door.”A serial killer is snuffing out the lives of affluent people of color in Monterrey, North America. Hard-boiled, homicide detectives Curtis Dubois and Harold Lowe are assigned to the case. But when they realize that the killer may not be human, Mona Livelong, a young paranormal detective, is brought in to help solve the case. As Mona races to unravel the clues to save Monterrey, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying …

“The temperature in the room suddenly dipped from seventy to forty degrees. Lowe felt a suffocating claustrophobia, as if he were being forced inside a coffin. He clutched the towel, breathing hard, his heart thumping. By now it was so cold he could see his exhaled breath. Footsteps echoed over the bathroom tiles, slow and measured. They stopped just beside him. A plume of breath floated toward him. With a cry of terror, he bolted for the door.”A serial killer is snuffing out the lives of affluent people of color in Monterrey, North America. Hard-boiled, homicide detectives Curtis Dubois and Harold Lowe are assigned to the case. But when they realize that the killer may not be human, Mona Livelong, a young paranormal detective, is brought in to help solve the case. As Mona races to unravel the clues to save Monterrey, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying plot to change the very face of North America.Cover art and design by Quinton Veal.

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Divya Manian reviewed Mona Livelong: Paranormal Detective by Valjeanne Jeffers (Mona Livelong, #1)

Excellent speculative fiction based in steampunk universe

5 stars

one of the annoying parts of the steampunk universe, to me, is how white it is. Luckily for us authors like P. Djéli Clark & Valjeanne Jeffers are here to offer worlds that are more authentic without erasing the racism, classism & homophobia but simultaneously offering courageous Black women protagonists. Really love this even though there is a touch of misogyny in this series (man wont marry a woman who is "better" than him).