Ty Merrick is not your usual detective. She is a Marshal on the police force of distict one in the new world order. It's a world of diminished natural resources, dictotorship, corruption and grinding poverty and flurshing 'invisible magic'.

Ty is also a werewolf as a result of an accident which left her with weird brain damage. The author has taken an original approach with this aspect of ty's life.

In this novel ty and her partner andy take on the office of 'intelligence'a sink hole of weirdo's and the home of 'invisible magic'.

If you like detective stories and sf, and horror, I reccomend this series. This is the 3rd book in the 'moon'series, with these characters. In addition the author has also written 2 other titles with 'file' in the title with these people.

Worth a read.

Earth no longer consists of multitude of governments ever since a cunning dictator, espousing humanitarianism, created a single totalitarian entity. The twenty-first century is not a comfortable time. Electrical outages are common and increasing numbers of people are forced to live in tent cities and cardboard boxes. The government controls every aspect of life. Marshal Ty Merrick, a government police officer, sees first hand how the people are controlled and manipulated.

Ty, a lycanthrope, is in charge of discovering who assassinated three government psychic agents, a unit that spied on the people through their collective minds. The Office of Intelligence wants the perpetrator quickly found, but Ty realizes that this is probably an inside job. The problem is that the killer is a rogue operative who believes he is the dreaded Manjinn, an immortal demon unanswerable to humans

MANJINN MOON is the perfect blending of mystery and science fiction with a few paranormal elements sprinkled on top of the exciting story line. This appealing cross-genre novel will gather Denise Vitola a large fan base that will perceive that the book is on the cutting edge of literature. Ms. Vitola has extrapolated the current world-wide social and economic conditions into a stunning novel of warning that should be the opening act of a fantastic series.

Harriet Klausner

District Marshall Ty Merrick, afflicted with lycanthropy, and her partner LaRue return in this fourth book of 21st century gone awry. It is filled with lots of mixed metaphors, strange plotlines, and everything that normally would make a reader cringe--but Denise Vitola brings it all together in a dark, disturbing, and oddly humorous tale that leaves you wanting more. The book stands alone very well, but you would be missing all the fun and adventures that started in QUANTUM MOON, OPALITE MOON, and MANJINN MOON.

This is a well written, easy to read novel. Nicki Chim is forensic hematologist (a specialist in blood), who works on contract for various people, including the police department in washington DC.

This book chronicles both the investigation into a serial killer called 'the winter man' and Nicki's private life which is getting more complicated than she would like. The characters are believable and the author has well thought out her sub-culture of vampires in the modern world without going into obessive detail.

If you like a good mystery and run across a second hand copy of this book it's worth picking up and reading. The fact that Nicki is a vampire is in many ways almost incidental to the story, it's just something she has to 'live' with and work around.

I found it to be extremely well detailed on the locations of Washington, DC and surrounding areas, keeping the city alive for me while reading. Nicki seems real and the twist on vampirism in the story is very good. The 'Dracula' syndrom is broken. The story flows well and keeps you turning pages in an attempt to figure out who the 'Winter Man' actually is. I made time to read--I had to know! It is a murder mystery with a very capable sleuth--move over Columbo. Maybe vampires do exist--Denise Vitola makes you think so!

Normally I'm not a big fan of police procedurals, so I'm not even sure why I picked it up at first. But darned if I didn't find myself really getting into the story! I realized that the reason I enjoyed this book so much was because of the characters.

Ty Merrick is great, with her condition that is both blessing and curse. Gibson keeps me guessing. Sometimes he seems cold and calculating, and at other times he truly seems to care for Merrick. He's a good foil for her. And even LaRue and Baba are fun to read.

I know Denise Vitola has written several other books in the series. I hope she continues.

Ty Merrrick might not be a werewolf in the traditional sense, but she's one great cop...er district marshall. She and her partner have to navigate a near (and very believable) future where "Humanitarian Ideals" rule everyone's lives and most civilians structure their reality around invisible magics. The mystery is nicely paced as one interview leads to another until the climax. This will leave you wanting more.

Ty Merrick is one of my favourite science fiction characters, and Quantum Moon is one of my favourite science fiction books. The setting is excellently done, with an admirable blend of the familiar and the exotic. The heroine, Ty Merrick, is tough, admirable, and believable. Vitola shows a keen understanding of superstition and mythology. I highly recommend this novel.

I can't, honestly, rate this book as worse than 3 stars. Nor can I rate it better than 3 stars. The characters, for all that the author gives them quirks and twists, are cardboard. You know exactly who is going to do what from the first chapter on. The author telegraphed the solution.

As for the social picture painted, it's just Poland under communism. Blah, blah, blah. This is not challenging, it's just bleak, boring and depressing.

This book killed the hour and a half it was meant to; don't buy it if you really value your money, or you don't have a second-hand bookstore nearby.

It gets a little scary when Ms. Vitola goes into the various ways the world has been taken over by a government. However, her characters are good and the plot is passable.

I hate this author's dystopian future. I hate the idea of being cold, unwashed and underfed. From my comfortable middleclass couch though I love to travel with her characters through the dreadful underbelly of their society. These are future police procedurals that are as believable as Ed McBain's 87th Precinct and as scary as anything ever written in the dystopian SF genre.

I bought a copy of this book at my local Dollar Tree store. It looked interesting enough and what the heck it was only a dollar, so I bought it. I really like the main character's personality- a woman who won't sit back and be walked on. I thought that Winn Forest was a great character, and I also liked the alien commander, for all his faults. I'd reccomend this book to anyone.

I was completely unimpressed by this book. The characters are undeveloped and do not gain any depth in the course of the novel. The plot is confused, and ineffective. Many of the events did not follow logically, and there was little basis for much of the plot.

I usually do not like dystopian novels. Current headlines are bad enough without looking into a future where the US has become enmeshed in an economic and ecological nightmare. I do like mystery novels though. I've always been fond of the theory that mysteries are popular in times of stress because they demonstate the triumph of order over chaos when the culprit is identified and the rule of law takes over. Which may explain why I like these novels.

Detective Ty Merrick due to an encounter with a defective heater's fumes, has become a modern lycanthrope. She has what she describes as "stretches" where she changes mentally and physically. Her partner LaRue collects Soviet Communism and drives an antique East German Trabrant with a spring necked plastic statue of Lenin that with each bump bobs its head and squeaks "comrade, comrade." They struggle to maintain order in a world where there are constant shortages, all officials are corrupt and most of the populations manages to bridge the gap between what is provided by the state and what they need to survive by scavaging while they rely on supersition and magic to try to gain some control of their environment.

Which leads back to the theory about mysteries. By continuing to do their job in the midst of intolerable conditions, Ty and LaRue show some order does exist, there is some hope when they suceed in solving a crime that order can be restored at least to some small part of the world.

the books, by the way, should be read sequentially to appreciate the evolving nature of Ty's lycanthropy.