This is a book that got put on my to read shelf back in 2014. I read the first chapter, and then stooped for reasons I do not remember. But now I have finished the book and glad that I have. Phil is a Were, but a very strange Were in that rather than an animal, he Changes sex (male to female). He has just opened up a detective agency and got his first case - proving that the suicide of another Supernatural (in this case the Supe is a gay Witch) was murder. So Phil/Mena and his secretary Syd (another Were - in her case a snake) are on it. The Syd's fiance Bear is killed, and even more Supe deaths need to be investigated. So Phil/Mena gives the reader a ride around Anthony's fantasy noir crime scenes where he/she has encounters with goblins, demons, succubus/incubus, ghosts, witches, vampires, and zombies before the case is resolved. And Phil gets the girl of his dreams in the end. Not a bad Piers Anthony tale, but a bit more risque than his normal Xanth books.