Why You'll Love This
A witch who hunts witches moves to San Francisco to escape her past — her past followed her anyway.
- Great if you want: dark urban fantasy with a conflicted protagonist fighting her own nature
- The experience: steadily tense with a procedural structure grounding the supernatural elements
- The writing: Viguié blends police detective realism with occult atmosphere in tight chapters
- Skip if: you haven't read book one — backstory carries significant weight here
About This Book
Samantha Ryan made her choice: leave Salem, leave the darkness, and build something ordinary in San Francisco. She's a homicide detective now, not a witch—or at least that's what she tells herself. When a murdered historian sends her into the fog-draped Santa Cruz Mountains, she finds a coven that knows exactly who she is and what she's capable of. The real tension in The Last Grave isn't the murder. It's the question of whether Samantha can solve it without becoming the thing she fears most.
Viguié writes the push-and-pull of identity with genuine sharpness—Samantha's resistance to magic feels earned rather than convenient, and the pacing keeps that internal conflict tight against the external investigation. The San Francisco and Santa Cruz settings do real atmospheric work, grounding the supernatural in geography that feels lived-in and specific. As a second installment, this book deepens rather than repeats: readers who connected with Samantha in Witch Hunt will find her harder to predict here, which makes the story harder to put down.
