The Reading Spot

Even Vampires Get the Blues by Katie MacAlister

Funny book. It continues on her vampire series (A girl's guide to vampires; Sex and the single vampire; sex, lies and vampires), but they do stand on their own. This is the story of Scottish Dark one, Paen Scott, and a half-elf named Samantha Cosse. The H is the typical dark and brooding H we all love, in a kilt. Yes, he does where a kilt at one point in the story (a true Scotsman too). The other characters were great. I loved Sam's cousin because everyone has or knows one of those flighty but very well-meaning friends.
The story has Sam, who has recently left (asked to leave) Diviner School and is now opening her own investigative business. Her job and knack is to find things. Paen goes to her needed her to find a certain statue to save his mother's soul from being forfeited to a demon. (It does sound kind of weird when explaining plot, but it is very good.) With well-meaning friends, demon interference and love what can go wrong?