Wizard Detective

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When Asher Jones, the teenage son of Atlanta Detective Douglas Jones, goes missing, Detective Jones long-lost uncle shows up to help out in the search for Asher. It turns out that Uncle Errand has changed his name to “Tallow” for some reason that is never explained. It also turns out that Uncle Tallow is a private detective. More importantly, it turns out that Uncle Tallow is a wizard who learned magic in some other world.

Uncle Tallow is a definite help to the investigation. He puts the investigation on the right track, uses Elf magic to heal, and unleashes lightning bolts as the occasion demands.

This is a nice book. The characters are nice. Detective Jones is learning not to swear. He has a precocious eight-year-old daughter. The other characters are equally nice.

This is obviously the introductory story of a series where we get introduced to series' characters and tropes. We learn something about the monsters that are showing up in Atlanta from the world of magic. We also learn quite a bit about the magic system that exists in that world.

I enjoyed the story. It was a bit too easy, I thought, with respect to unraveling the mystery. Likewise, Uncle Tallow's never-ending bag of tricks might make him more than a match for any situation, but the story moved along and was rather enjoyable.