I’d like to read more about Margrit and Alban. (Catie E. Born in Alaska, currently living in Ireland, she does miss central heating, insulation. Heart of stone Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.

The setting and set-up is fascinating and though I’m not usually a sucker for police/lawyer type crime novels the urban fantasy aspects of this drew me right in. Murphy is the author of more than twenty booksalong with a number of novellas and comics. The characters are powerfully drawn, Margrit is a compelling heroine, fiercely intelligent, dedicated to her job (and her clients) and fearless in the face of danger (even when she probably shouldn’t be). Margrit is black, from a privileged family and has to examine her own prejudices when she discovers beings in NYC who may not be human but dammit, they’re still people. Heart Of Stone is the first novel in a new contemporary fantasy trilogy by C. This is a whodunnit and a whydunnit, but it’s also about race and acceptance. Murphy is a writer of fantasy novels and short stories. She also realises that she’s powerfully attracted to the gargoyle (no, he’s not always made of stone) and her rocky relationship with Tony is going to suffer even more. Margrit helped to give it to him, but when she listens to Alban’s side of the story she realises that she was too hasty. Murphys The Walker Papers series, I came across this nifty little trilogy and fell in love. Margrit’s homicide detective off-on lover, Tony, thinks he has the answer. Someone is killing women in Central Park and Alban has been framed. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine’s lover and spymaster. Margrit Knight, a lawyer and negotiator in New York City gets involved with a world she never knew existed when she meets Alban – a gargoyle and one of the Old Races. In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen’s secret weapon.

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