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The Hermetic Detective: A Riga Hayworth Mystery (A Riga Hayworth Paranormal Mystery Book 6) Kindle Edition

by Kirsten Weiss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 118 ratings

Book 6 of 7: A Riga Hayworth Paranormal Mystery

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A Monstrous Assassin. A Midlife Detective.

Housebound with five-month-old twins, middle-aged mom Riga just wants to get back in the metaphysical detecting game. But when she’s called to help an elderly woman, haunted and alone, a deadly threat follows Riga home. Can she prevent a tragedy and protect her family?

The Hermetic Detective is the sixth book in the Riga Hayworth series of fun, fast-paced paranormal women’s fiction. If you’re looking for a page-turner with a complicated, 40-something heroine, scroll up and buy The Hermetic Detective and start your next magical adventure today!

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urban fantasy,mystery,murder,paranormal women's fiction,midlife,whodunit,magic,occult,crime

Welcome to the World of Riga Hayworth!

Paranormal mysteries with a no-nonsense heroine, a talking gargoyle, and supernatural adventures that prove you’re never too old to start over. Are you ready to be enchanted? Just turn the page and… voila!

Riga Hayworth Reading Order:

Prequel: The Metaphysical Detective

The Alchemical Detective

The Shamanic Detective

The Infernal Detective

The Elemental Detective

The Hoodoo Detective

The Hermetic Detective

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Riga Hayworth shorts:

The Sigil Detective

The Gargoyle Chronicles


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Explore the paranormal mysteries of the Riga Hayworth series today!

The Alchemical Detective #1, ASIN: B0085XCDL8
The Shamanic Detective #2, ASIN: B009TX16H0
The Infernal Detective #3, ASIN: B00CRJDWRA
The Elemental Detective #4, ASIN: B00HCNDGPY
The Hoodoo Detective #5, ASIN: B00OTYN6HM
The Hermetic Detective #6, ASIN: B015YTJVAG
Unbound #7, ASIN B08YMYK6QW
The Metaphysical Detective Prequel, ASIN: B005ZHBD3G
The Gargoyle Chronicles, ASIN: B07JG7452D

About the Author

Kirsten Weiss conjures up action-packed witch mysteries based on contemporary and historical magical practices. Her witchy heroines aren't perfect (and neither are their familiars), but they're smart, they struggle, and they succeed.

Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. She is best known for her Doyle Witch and Riga Hayworth paranormal mystery books. Are you ready to be enchanted? Just turn the page and... voila!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015YTJVAG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Misterio Press; 2nd edition (October 31, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1355 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 225 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 194476710X

Best Sellers Rank: #1,020,708 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,157 in Metaphysical Fantasy eBooks
- #2,268 in Psychic Mysteries
- #5,091 in Witch & Wizard Mysteries

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Amazon bestselling author Kirsten Weiss writes laugh-out-loud, page-turning mysteries. Her heroines aren’t perfect, but they’re smart, they struggle, and they succeed. Kirsten writes in a house high on a hill in the Colorado woods and occasionally ventures out for wine and chocolate. Or for a visit to the local pie shop. She's best known for her cozy and witch mystery novels. So if you like funny, action-packed mysteries with complicated heroines, just turn the page…

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Vickie Laurenzi

High Praise!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2016

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So Good! Such a great, fun series of stories, well written and deep into the art and arcane. Kristen's writing style continually evolves and she is a masterful handler of description. We read them all, each book better than the last and while we've moved on to her Sensibility Grey, and are really enjoying it, we will cherish hope that KW will add more Riga Hayworth stories in the future. We enjoy her work as much as Ben Aaronovitch, Jim C Hines, Benedict Jacka, Mike Sheldon, and Jim Butcher, so that's high praise indeed!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015

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As a fan of the series I am happy to report that the latest in the continuing series of magical mysteries featuring Riga Hayworth is a fun read! Riga is now the mother of twins and her maternal instinct (and maternal duties) are front & center in her mind and in the novel. Other fans of the series will be happy to know that both her niece and Brigitte are back with new installments/dimensions of their lives. As always in Kristen Weiss' work, the sense of place is fabulous and the magical scenes are unique & credible! I particularly loved the persona of the demon in this novel. Don't hesitate. Download this one today!

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Dawn Marie Stange

Demon in Human Disguise

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2020

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Riga has her hands full with a huge surprise. Wont spoiler alert it if you have not read the series. Donovon her loving husband, Pen her now changed niece and her faithful companion Bridgette the Gargoyle. Don't miss this exciting read.

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

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The demons were evil. The babies were angelic. Everyone else had a little of both and much more of themselves. It grabbed my interest from the beginning, and, even though this was the last book, it still isn’t over. I have questions.

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Linda J. Hart

Wish each book would never end!

Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2020

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The entire series is fabulous! In fact, all the books by this author are great! Thank you KirstenWeiss!

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Robert Thomas

Endless future possibilities

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020

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This is a good entry in the series. Without spoiling the ending, there are many interesting possibilities for future novels involving many/all of the characters. Hopefully, such will be coming in the near future.

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Cynthia Morrison

Can't wait for the next book

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016

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A serious change of direction for book 8 is on the horizon.
So exciting. The story was fast, with twists and turns. The ending is intoxicating - can't wait to see where we are heading.

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A five star writer , a one star novel

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023

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I’ve read this entire series including the associated offerings and with the exception of this title and to some degree The Elemental Detective (for flirting with the same failings as here) enjoyed the run. This story however, really disappointed me and now I’ve lost a series I enjoyed. Unlike what came before, The Hermetic Detective (the final of the 11 books I’ve read) left me sorry I wasted my money.

The plot revolves around a demon in human form trying to kill Riga and her children. The infants are offered up by the author as the primary tension for the plot. Can Riga save them? Frankly, this sort of writing ought to be beneath Weiss who is talented enough not to need cheap hacks.

There is a LOT of filler here and it comes at you as descriptions of Riga’s new twin babies - their squeals, their stink because diapers need changing, or their spit up that’s soiling Donovon’s expensive shirts – on and on, ad infinitum, pages of this narrative that doesn’t serve to move the plot forward. In between these activities, the infants scream and scream and scream. It’s tiresome, not entertaining, and I quickly grew sick of it. In contrast, there is also much focus on institutional care of the elderly, pedantically so.

All to say, I don’t buy murder mysteries to imagine myself in a room filled with the aroma of baby waste. This book could have been a winner had it not included children, and had the entire novel not been wed to these domestic scenes punctuated with on-going, over-the-top, episodes of terror. Or at its worst, babies in the middle of episodes of terror.

Which brings me to another point. When it comes to entertainment, I don’t want to deal with worrying about children or animals being hurt. In fact, it sickens me that Oz the dog (brought forth from the Hoodoo Detective) is shot. He survives, not that Riga bothers to go to see him, and not that he’s back with the family in the final scene. As in The Hoodoo Detective, the author just fails to include Oz in the ending. So now the author has used Hollywood’s cheapest tricks to emotionally manipulate the reader: shoot the dog, threaten the innocent children; how, going forward, do I trust her as a cozy writer? I don’t. And I won’t read books where animals will possibly be hurt.

Furthermore, why, why, why, must an interesting, middle-aged, capable female detective, karate kick her essential self to the curb? Why isn’t it ok for a woman to be enough without being morphed into an exhausted new mommy at age 45? It’s a tired social script that says women need a man and children to be fulfilled. And we’ve had enough foreshadowing of that in previous books. It is way past time to get over this crippling script. If female writers of women’s stories can’t rewrite this expectation, who will?

I enjoyed the ride until now but sadly, along with the reasons already mentioned, I don’t see myself engaging further with a series aspiring to be a reworked version of Bewitched. Yep, the children are dangerously magical, and how will the parents hide/control their adorable but destructive powers? So here is where I leave the Riga bus. It’s becoming a rehash of corporate approved sales strategy.

A post script thought on production quality: as talented as Ms. Weiss is, and I do appreciate her as an author, and especially the research she does for the books, she needs a better editor. No professional writer should be allowed to use a word like strode or phrases like “scrubbing a hand over her face” more than once per book and her characters NEVER, not ever, just walk, they always strode all over the story. It’s a pretentious word unfit for repeat use and *All* of the novels have this. So please, Ms. Wiess, don’t pull the reader out of the story like that, and do take a chance on keeping a cool character cool, let her be something other than a predictable spokesperson for 1950s expectations – let her not simply practice magic, let her BE magic.

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