25. M.R. Sellars - Harm None

When a woman is murdered in what looks to be a satanic ritual, Detective Ben Storm turns to his one friend that may have a clue as to what is going on: Rowan Gant, a practicing Wiccan and an expert on witchcraft. After looking over the details of the case, Gant quickly realizes that this ritual was not done by a Satanist, but by a fellow Wiccan because parts of the ritual that were used were common Wiccan rituals. However, the rest of the ritual contains Black Magic and Gant fears that this murder may actually just be a practice run for the killer. Disturbed by this fact, especially since the law governing Wiccans is "Harm None," Gant firmly plants himself by Storm's side to help find this killer and prevent further murders.

In the introduction to the book, Sellars states that since this book is in the first person view and since nobody is grammatically correct in the way they think, he had a lot of spelling errors and grammatical errors intentionally placed in the book. Personally, I think that's a load of crap and his editors should have fought against him on this point. The book has an interesting story line but the author just isn't a good writer. There was way too much dialog and a lot of scenes were described in such detail that really wasn't needed. All of this distracted me away from the story line. I might take a chance and try his second book, praying that his experience will help him be a better writer, because he did have a good idea. Would I recommend this book? Nope. There are a lot of books out there that are just so much better.