Guardian of Monsters (Sleuths of Shadow Salon Book 1) by Catherine Stine

Celestine, a witch with a talent for prophetic drawings is shocked when she draws her landlord Ray with his eyes gouged out and a winged-mermaid by him, and he turns up dead. All she wanted was to open a gallery, but first she must apprehend his killer. In a note, Ray revealed he was actually a supernatural pirate mage. Years back, his crew trapped an evil rival clan. Ray feared they’d escaped.

Oryn, a fae and classmate in Celestine’s art class, asks nosy questions. Yet, he’s clever at brainstorming leads and insists his air magic could come in handy.

When pirates in Ray’s old crew are murdered, Celestine decides she needs help from Oryn and Luna, a mermaid asking to show at Celestine’s new gallery—the same one in Celestine’s drawing! Otherwise, the monstrosity unleashed will destroy Savannah. For lovers of PNR crime procedurals.

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Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban

Detectives Luna and Celestine take on a second case, when Tim Calhoun insists his Conservatory of Theater Arts has been cursed. He claims a red specter is terrorizing him, upturning his library, setting fires in the theater, even brutalizing him. He’s desperate to solve this terrifying mystery before Hollywood directors and agents flock to Savannah to watch his students perform.

Hazardous incidents follow rehearsals of the 1811 play. Luna interviews students, inspects the campus and unearths a copy with strange red notations. She hires Dodge, a necro-visionary to find out who drew them. The shocking entity he resurrects says aerial realm games must be won to end the curse. But where they are and why a curse was inflicted remains a mystery.

To uncover clues, Luna uses water magic, while resisting her attraction to Tim. Celestine finds clues in her drawings. Luna consults root worker Dup