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Lies & Omens

Sylvie Lightner is a P.I. specializing in the unusual—in a world where magic is real, and Hell is just around the corner. After escaping secret government cells and destroying a Miami landmark, Sylvie’s trying to lay low—something that gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But these magical attacks are a risk to bystanders, and Sylvie can’t let that slide.    When the war between the government and the magical world threatens the three people closest to her—her assistant, her sister, and her lover—Sylvie has no choice but to get involved with hidden powers bent on shaping the world to their liking. Now, with death and disaster on the horizon, even if Sylvie wins, things will never be the same...


Gods & Monsters

Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual and unbelievable. When she finds the bodies of five women in the Florida Everglades, Sylvie believes them to be the work of a serial killer and passes the buck. But when the bodies wake and shift shape, killing the police, Sylvie finds herself at the head of a potentially lethal investigation.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Jun 3, 2011
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy, Paranormal / Supernatural, Shapeshifters
Gods & Monsters is the next of the Shadows Inquiries series by Lyn Benedict and continues the tale of Sylvie Lightner aka Shadows. Trying to recover from the upheavals in Chicago and the distance between Demalion and herself, Sylvie is hunting for a missing woman when she inadvertently becomes embroiled in yet another arcane struggle. Ostensibly operating according to standard procedure, Sylvie calls in the

Ghosts and Echoes

Chicago cop Adam Wright has picked up a spiritual hitchhiker, the ghost of a dead man who desperately wants to live again. So he turns to supernatural P.I. Sylvie Lightner to rid him of the spirit--a spirit she finds strangely familiar. Original.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Apr 12, 2010
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy
Lyn Benedict continues her Shadows Inquiries series with Ghosts & Echoes.  Sylvie Lightner is trying to recover from the tragic events that occurred in Sins & Shadows but the minute that she returns from her respite away from the office, she is presented with a series of thorny problems, none of which she wants to deal with.  A cluster of inexplicable robberies, a Chicago policeman that is a

Sins and Shadows

Sylvie Lightner is no ordinary P.I. She specializes in cases involving the unusual, in a world where magic is real-and where death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you.

But when an employee is murdered in front of her, Sylvie has had enough. After years of confounding the dark forces of the Magicus Mundi, she's closing up shop-until a man claiming to be the God of Justice wants Sylvie to find his lost lover.

And he won't take no for an answer.

Reviewer: ELF
Review: Jan 11, 2010
Genre(s): Urban Fantasy
Lyn Benedict introduces her sardonically efficient heroine, Sylvie Lightner, in the novel Sins & Shadows.  This gritty urban fantasy blends characters from several pantheons in an interesting missing person case with a paranormal twist.  Sylvie, a private investigator, has been so traumatized by the murder of a friend and employee that she is trying to close her business and remove all of her ot

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