The Ghost with a Knife at Her Throat

KIRKUS (starred) - "Brilliant worldbuilding, propulsive action, and an unforgettable lead." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - "An ambitious, surreal mystery." . "This completed, 5-book series intoxicated me like nothing I've read before.". Colored in sparkling prose and shaded with snark, this series follows Asher Gale, forgery investigator, "recovering" addict, and ex-painter, through the dark, supernatural art galleries of Skysill Beach, where forged paintings are suddenly killing people and ultraviolet ghosts are suddenly ... real.. Asher's just minding his crazy from a beachside barstool when the first ghost appears, with her save-the-world problems. But Asher has attention span and drinking issues. He's nobody's first choice to save anything. So right away you feel sorry for the ghost - she's obviously desperate. When a beautiful psychic complicates his life even further, and shadowy gangsters start killing his old patrons, it all, somehow, becomes Asher's responsibility .... THE PLOT TWISTS ... so many. It's a 5 book story arc as unpredictable as a drunk on a tightrope.. THE CHARACTER POV ... Asher's what they call a "massively dysfunctional narrator," which is similar to an "unreliable narrator," but way worse. We only see the world through Asher's eyes, and his eyes are literally malfunctioning. Plus he has congenital craziness and a drunken disinterest in responsibility. For all of which everyone absolutely loves him.. THE SCOPE ... wildly epic. What starts in Book One as an offbeat amateur sleuth-mystery ends in Book Five in malevolent, supernatural apocalypse. Like Odd Thomas married LOTR on acid in Vegas. It's wild but feels real, it's a thrilling, funny, sweeps-you-up epic, with a side of snarky romance.. THE SERIES BEGINS ... when wealthy art dealer Waylon Goodman calls, and Asher shows up expecting a forgery. Instead, his dysfunctional eyes discover Waylon's daughter, dead, covered in “invisible" ultraviolet paint. He's drawn into an investigation.. When the girl's (ultraviolet) ghost starts following him, Asher’s increasingly desperate questions send him back to Skysill Beach, the town where he grew up crazy, to start peeling away layers of greed, violence, and supernatural forgery. Soon he's stumbling onto murders, falling for a beautiful psychic, growing well-known to the police, and - briefly - becoming a ghost himself. (It's that kind of series.)-ACCLAIM FOR THE SERIES - MULTIPLE KIRKUS STARS★. Book 1 ★: "Masterful ... a must-read" KIRKUS (starred review)Book 2 ★: "Bombshell plot twists" KIRKUS (starred review)Book 3: "Relentless ..." KIRKUSBook 4 ★: "Violent, magnetic, orgasmic" KIRKUS (starred review)-"I LOVED these wild, hypnotic, quite remarkable books."---- The Bookie Monster: Amazon VINE VOICE review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Like crashing full speed through a forest in the dark. Leaves you breathless."---- Jeremy C. (Amazon review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Adored it! I ship Asher and Caroline! More beautiful girl psychics please!"---- SHARON.T (Amazon review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"An ambitious, surreal mystery."---- Publishers Weekly (BookLife Prize 2023). -