Lost Soul by Adam Wright

Harbinger, P.I. 1 Lost Soul by Adam Wright

Lost Soul introduces Alec Harbinger, who makes his living as a private investigator of paranormal incidents. He’s also a member of a secret society who tries to keep paranormal threats contained, but the society is angry at him and has sent him from Chicago to rural Maine where he expects to find no work at all. Obviously, there would be no series if he was correct in his assessment, so Harbinger quickly discovers that rural Maine is teaming with paranormal activity.

 

The mystery kept my interest. The book moves along at a pretty good clip. Harbinger and his assistant and his friend who survived a classic “slasher movie” style problem were all good characters. The one thing I was dissatisfied with was that I don’t have a sense of Harbinger’s abilities yet. He clearly has a lot of knowledge and a lot of training. He uses magically empowered items. But it’s unclear to me if he has any magical abilities of his own. Hopefully this will become clear in future novels.