Mike Lucifer is a Spiritual Consultant who has had trauma in the past that keeps him from moving on, but an insistent stranger drags him into a case, which forces him to confront his mistakes in order to solve the mystery.

So this book is definitely a riff on Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files and Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The idea of a secret world existing alongside our own is a great way to explore the world’s oddities and strangeness in a humorous, and sometimes horrifying, way. Lucifer is an interesting character and the story’s ending leaves the possibility of a series, which I would probably read. The story started slow, but picked up nicely and had a relatively satisfying ending. I’m interested to see where Mike goes after this!

I received a free audiobook copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

Delightfully named spiritual consultant, Mike Lucifer has been asked for help from a woman convinced her boyfriend is possessed by a demon. It’s not a job Mike wants to take, his brushes with the dark side of the spiritual realm have driven him to find forgetfulness at the bottom of a bottle. Still, with his bank balance dangerously low, Mike agrees to take on the job. But the boyfriend isn’t possessed, he’s dead and Mike begins to wonder if this whole thing was some kind of a setup; maybe someone, or something, from his past is looking for payback. Delightfully dark and irreverent, this is a must read