Une aventure de Jill Kismet - La série

Mon nom est Jill Kismet. Spécialiste en trucs surnaturels. Exterminatrice d’esprits malfaisants. Tueuse de démons. Tout le monde ne supporte pas la nuit et ses créatures. Mais je ne suis pas tout le monde. Mon passé m’a beaucoup appris sur les ténèbres, et je suis entraînée par le meilleur – quoique pas le moins dangereux. Les villes ont besoin de personnes comme nous, qui font des choses que même les flics refusent de faire, quand la nuit est tombée. Bienvenue dans mon univers.

Un pacte surnaturel a des conséquences… Santa Luz, ville de Jill Kismet. Quelqu’un, ou quelque chose, tue et éviscère des prostituées. C’est là que Jill entre en scène : spécialiste en paranormal et chasseuse aguerrie, elle est appelée pour examiner les corps et résoudre l’enquête. Facile à dire… Car en plus du monstre qu’elle traque, Jill comprend bientôt qu’elle est elle-même la proie d’un ennemi qui a juré sa mort, et s’il faut pour cela ouvrir les portes de l’Enfer, ainsi soit-il. Meurtres, possession et exorcisme, sans oublier un passé qui la rattrape… Quelquefois, même pour quelqu’un d’aussi doué que Jill, il ne reste plus de prières.

Some cases are unusual - even for Jill Kismet. When her police contact asks her to look into a "suicide", she suddenly finds herself in a labyrinth of deception, drugs, murder -- and all-too-human corruption. The cops are her allies, except for the ones who want her dead. The hellbreed are her targets, except for the ones who might know what's going on. Her city is in danger, time is running out, and each lead only draws her deeper. How far will a hunter go when her city -- and her friends -- are on the line? Just far enough.

The Cirque de Charnu has come. They will clean out the demons and the suicides, and move on. As long as they stay within the rules, Jill Kismet can't deny them entry. But she can watch--and if they step out of line, she'll send them packing. When Cirque performers start dying grotesquely, Kismet has to find out why, or the fragile truce won't hold and her entire city will become a carnival of horror. She also has to play the resident hellbreed power against the Cirque to keep them in line, and find out why ordinary people are needing exorcisms. And then there's the murdered voodoo practitioners, and the zombies. An ancient vengeance is about to be enacted. The Cirque is about to explode. And Jill Kismet is about to find out some games are played for keeps...

When a new hellbreed comes calling, playing nice isn't an option. Jill Kismet has no choice but to seek treacherous allies - Perry, the devil she knows, and Melisande Belisa, the cunning Sorrows temptress whose true loyalties are unknown. Kismet knows Perry and Belisa are likely playing for the same thing--her soul. It's just too bad, because she expects to beat them at their own game. Except their game is vengeance. Nobody plays vengeance like Kismet. But if the revenge she seeks damns her, her enemies might get her soul after all...

Jill Kismet is back from the grave in this explosive conclusion to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series. She wakes up in her own grave. She doesn't know who put her there, she doesn't know where she is, and she has no friends or family. She only knows two things: She has a job to do: cleansing the night of evil. And she knows her name. Jill Kismet.