Wicked Deeds

Historian Vickie Preston and FBI agent Griffin Pryce stop in Baltimore on their way to their new home in Virginia and find themselves in the middle of a murder at an Edgar Allan Poe-themed restaurant. The manner of the death echoes Poe's most famous stories, and when more deaths follow in the same pattern, the FBI's Krewe of Hunters paranormal team is brought in to investigate. Poe himself begins appearing to Vickie in dreams and visions, offering cryptic information that may be the only way to stop a killer using literary horror as a blueprint.

Luke Daniels is a reliable presence throughout the Krewe of Hunters series, giving the paranormal procedural framework its proper authority while keeping the supernatural elements from overwhelming the mystery. His handling of the Poe material, both the historical voice and the contemporary crime's echoes of it, brings the Baltimore setting its appropriate Gothic atmosphere. At just under ten hours, this twenty-third series entry is a strong example of the franchise's particular formula.