Sarah J. Sover’s first book, Double-Crossing the Bridge, is a play on the fairy tale “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” If you ever wanted a story about the Underworld, filled with trolls and other monsters, Double-Crossing the Bridge is for you. Sover’s second novel, Fairy Godmurder, takes a swing at the traditional view of a fairy godmother and successfully blends it with a noir whodunnit with a strong female detective, Gwen Evenshine, and populated by well-developed secondary characters like Chessa Moon, a pixie blogger who’ll do almost anything for a good scoop. Gwen’s first assignment as a fairy godmother fails completely when her charge, the princess Francesca, is murdered on Gwen’s watch, leaving her haunted and feeling like a total failure.
The novel is set in New England, which is really a fae world in which the fae control things behind the scenes while humans have little understanding of what’s going on. While lacking the teenage-boy humor of Double-Crossing the Bridge, Fairy Godmurder works on many levels and, despite its serial-killer underpinnings, is fun to read and provides a unique take on the serial killer, detective, police procedural, and noir genres.
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Fairy Godmurder is available through Amazon.
Double-Crossing the Bridge is also available through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. You can find my review of the book here.
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