From the pages of the Hex-Files

Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she’s on tour in the united States, about to play the biggest concert of her career- and she’s in fear for her life, because that something has followed her across the ocean.

All that stands between her and an all-too-real magical death are two offbeat government agents:

Liz Mayfield, special agent for the British Government Office of Occult & Paranormal Sightings Investigation [editor’s note: OOPSI]. Little did she imagine when she was given her dream assignment that she’d face the most fearsome magical onslaught of her life. Or that she’d run into an old friend…

Beauray Boudreau, Liz’s American counterpart from the FBI, where he’s known as ‘Boo-Boo’ Boudreau. And he doesn’t have that nickname for nothing…

If this unlikely duo can’t solve the mystery of Fionna’s invisible attackers, the singer will have a lot more to worry about than MTV.

I love a good Robert Asprin book with his relaxed writing style and wit. I also love a good Jody Lynn Nye and when the two combine then it’s all good. I’d never heard of this book before, I put down my magazine specifically to read it and wasn’t disappointed. It’s a lovely magical story of co-operation between two people from two different continents who’ve never met before but who seem to make their specific talents work really well together.

There’s so much to love about this book. Most of it is set in New Orleans and we see how the place has its own magic, pity I won’t make it there this year. We get a good overview of how much magic there is there and how many different types of magical practitioners there could be. There’s music in them thar hills!

The end of the book was left quite open. Yes, everything in the plot was resolved but Liz and Boo-Boo part good friends and I can see them working together in the future. The evil overlords weren’t found out so that leaves it open for them to come back fighting in another book. I can’t help wondering if Lynn Nye will find time out from the MYTH Inc series and other writing projects to create a series out of this premise, if she does then I’ll be there buying them. Challenging for Asprin to come back as he died in 2008 but in New Orleans anything is possible.