Book Review: Abracadaver by Laura Resnick

Abracadaver by Laura Resnick

This is the latest is a series of novels featuring actress/supernatural sleuth Esther Diamond. Resnick is good, and this one does not disappoint our high expectations.

As in The Misfortune Cookie and earlier novels, this isn’t deep literature, or even particularly tricky mystery. In fact, the stories don’t actually make too much sense, strictly speaking. A lot of slapstick, lethal supernatural danger, and a little smoldering romance—pretty much average for an aspiring actress in NYC, no?

This particular story is yet another supernatural threat to New York, apparently involving demonic possession and reanimation of corpses. Esther and her allies must figure out what is going on and save the city–again.

The Diamond books feature considerable detail of the life of an aspiring actress (autobiographical?), done in the style of a light romantic comedy, with supernatural thrown in. I don’t generally enjoy “supernatural” thrillers, nor “romance” novels, nor police stories.  So why do I like this series?  Good writing and a touch of comedy, I think.

There should be at least one more book in this series. I’m  looking forward to it.

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1. Laura Resnick, Abracadaver, New York, Daw Books, Inc, 2014.