Medium rating of Heart of Malice (Lisa Edmonds) / Alice Worth 1 (year 2017) Rating : 7 Stars Goodreads Rating: 4,13
Opinion of Heart of Malice (Lisa Edmonds) / Alice Worth 1: Entertaining new series of a urban fantasy investigator. Essential, to buy and enjoy. Urban fantasy, cabal, magical object, mage, blood magic, earth magic, magic, magic null, private investigator,ghost, hidden past.
Blogs reviews:
As much as I am intrigued as to where the Alice Worth series is headed, at this time, I’m not interested in continuing on...
This is both a strength, but also a minor critique, in that while I learned a lot, I sometimes found her almost mathematical blow-by-blow explanations of how the magic worked too clinical and almost boring. .
I went ahead and bought the next in the series instantly at the end, and not because of cliffhangers, folks, the story wraps up nicely in the first book, but because the story also introduced all kinds of potential conflicts and other baddies..
The first time Moses Murphy’s granddaughter killed on his orders, she was six years old. For twenty years, she was a prisoner of an organized crime syndicate, forced to use her magic to make Moses the most powerful and feared man on the East Coast. To escape his cruelty, she faked her own death and started a new life as Alice Worth. As a private investigator specializing in cases involving the supernatural, Alice walks a precarious line between atoning for the sins of her grandfather’s cabal and keeping her true identity hidden. Hired to investigate the disappearance of a mysterious object of power, Alice enlists the help of Malcolm, a ghost running from a past as nightmarish as her own. It soon becomes clear the missing object was taken by someone with a dangerous secret and an unknown agenda. When her client is kidnapped, Alice must find her and the object of power before a vengeful killer destroys the city and slaughters thousands starting with Alice.
