Review: Darkwalker by E.L. Tettensor

He used to be the best detective on the job. Until he became the hunted...

Once a legendary police inspector, Nicolas Lenoir is now a disillusioned and broken man who spends his days going through the motions and his evenings drinking away the nightmares of his past. Ten years ago, Lenoir barely escaped the grasp of the Darkwalker, a vengeful spirit who demands a terrible toll on those who have offended the dead. But the Darkwalker does not give up on his prey so easily, and Lenoir has always known his debt would come due one day.

When Lenoir is assigned to a disturbing new case, he treats the job with his usual apathy—until his best informant, a street savvy orphan, is kidnapped. Desperate to find his young friend before the worst befalls him, Lenoir will do anything catch the monster responsible for the crimes, even if it means walking willingly into the arms of his own doom….

drey’s thoughts:

When I first started Darkwalker, I wasn’t quite sure where this story was going. Nicolas Lenoir is a detective who seems to be just going through the motions though he’s supposedly one of the best, and driving his aide nuts in the meantime. They’re investigating the stolen corpses of children, and he’s not sure what the heck’s going on with that, not that he’s all that interested (hence the driving-his-aide-nuts).

He’s also a man running from his past, one who hangs out with an eclectic group in a salon run by a woman with secrets, one with a soft spot for a street urchin. How’s that for complicated?

There’s a lot to set up for this first look at Nicolas Lenoir and the cast of characters of Darkwalker, never mind the plot itself. Dark magics by an unwanted people and kidnappings drive the plot; justice, an avenging spirit, and a man’s state of mind drives the story. With bodies dropping like flies around him, Nicolas is in a race against time to save the life of a nine-year-old boy – and possibly his own soul.

Darkwalker took a little bit to get going because of the setup, but once it did, I was hooked. I had to find out if the detective manages to figure out what’s going on, if he can solve the mystery and identify the villain before his own life is forfeit. And now I’m looking forward to checking out the next book in this series, Master of Plagues, coming in February!

drey’s rating: Excellent!

Have you read Darkwalker? What did you think?

About E. L. Tettensor

E.L. Tettensor likes her stories the way she likes her chocolate: dark, exotic, and with a hint of bitterness. She has visited more than fifty countries on five continents, and brought a little something back from each of them to press inside the pages of her books. She also writes fantasy as Erin Lindsey. She lives with her husband in Bujumbura, Burundi.

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