The Better Part of Darkness

By Shelli R. Johannes

Book Overview

Atlanta: it's the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon--some bring good works and miracles, and some bring unimaginable evil... Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She's recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.'s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim--but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined? This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439109656
• ISBN13: 9781439109656
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

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Reading with Tequila

Awesome doesn't even begin to describe The Better Part of Darkness. Kelly Gay has created a whole new world, completely unique from any other urban fantasy novels. I could not wait to see what happened which caused me such inner turmoil as I never wanted the book to end. I sincerely hope Charlie Madigan is around for a good long while. Kelly Gay has won herself a fan in me.

Butt Kicking Single Mother of One Saving the World One Bad Guy at a Time!

This being Kelly Gay's first novel she hit a homer right out of the ball park. I loved this book. I couldn't put it down and had to struggle to not think about it when I was trying to go to sleep at night. If you love a novel where a strong main character kicks major butt then this is it. Witty humor and constant emotion runs through the pages seamlessly and will have your attention from page one.

Butt Kicking Female In Outstanding Urban Fantasy

The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay A female cop still takes heat in our so called enlightened society. Gay shows how hot it can get in a future that has put Charlie Madigan on the front line with an alien partner and a refusal to admit who she truly is. Plenty of action in a good mystery with scifi and urban fantasy co-mingled. If you read my reviews at all, you know I like butt kicking females. It has been...

Better Part of Darkness

This was a phenomenal start to a new dark urban fantasy! Detective Charlie Madigan of the Integration Task Force, was revived from the dead eight months ago, after having been savagely killed on the job by an "off-worlder....... Thirteen years ago a scientist discovered Charbydon, a parallel world to earth. Charbydon is sectioned into two disgruntle civilizations, Charbydon and Elysia. Ever since the great revelation, "off-worlders"...