Author: Rebecca York
Publisher: Berkley
Publication Date: January 2003
Genre: Romantic Suspense / Paranormal Romance
Buy the Book: Amazon | BN
Description: The national bestselling author delivers this suspenseful tale of paranormal romance for the new Berkley Sensation romance line. A private investigator on the trail of a serial killer has a secret of his own--an ancient secret that draws a beautiful genetic researcher closer to him.
My Thoughts: Twenty-three years ago, I read a lot more paranormal tropes than I do now. I still enjoy them, but you know how it is. Life’s responsibilities take over, other books beckon louder and before you know it, a book you intended to read over two decades ago gets buried in the gigantic to be read pile. As part of my alphabet challenge this year, I needed a book written by an author whose last name began with ‘Y’ and this one popped right up. Thank goodness for websites, such as Goodreads, that give me the opportunity to see all the books I own and see which ones I have been sitting on the longest.
Regardless of whether or not you are a fan of paranormal tropes, Killing Moon proved to be quite interesting as well delivering an edge of the seat experience. I found Ross Marshall to be an intriguing character. As a private investigator, he has been hired by the parents of a missing girl to find out what happened to her. As a werewolf, he has the ability to hunt clues in a way no mere human can. Ross meets Dr. Megan Sheridan when his werewolf sleuthing brings him a little too close to a serial killer’s bullet.
Megan Sheridan is a genetics researcher. She goes to meet Ross after he calls her lab requesting genetic testing to see if something can be done about a genetic abnormality in his family that prevents female children surviving past birth and male children rarely surviving past age fifteen or sixteen. She doesn’t know about Ross’s lycanthropy but when she arrives at his home, she finds him with a leg wound that is infected.
I loved that this story is not your run of the mill werewolf story. Ross is able to transform at will by reciting a Gaelic verse and as wolf he looks like a standard wolf, not the horrifying monsters you see in films, slobbering and foaming at the mouth attacking and killing here, there and everywhere. As a wolf, Ross has full awareness of his mental, physical and emotional faculties and he has total recall of the events that transpire while in wolf form. Rather than the evil Romanian Gypsy curse, Ross’s lycanthropy is attributed to hereditary genetics.
This story had a lot of suspense for me with some very intense moments involving the serial killer Ross is hunting as well as an unknown person targeting Megan at the lab.
I thought the story was well written and the characters easy to like and relate to. There are currently ten books in the series and I recommend reading the series in order.
My Final Verdict: Overall, this was an enjoyable story with an interesting theory on lycanthropy that will feed a reader’s love of romance and suspense.
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