Supernatural Crimes Unit NYPD, Keith R.A. DeCandido
Supernatural Crimes Unit NYPD, Keith R.A. DeCandido
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Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD
The Thin Blue Ley-Line

Author: Keith R.A. DeCandido

Series: Supernatural Crimes Unit #1

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Unabridged: 12 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2025

Synopsis

From USA Today bestselling author Keith R.A. DeCandido comes a paranormal mystery of epic proportions.When Detective Domenica Kiernan solved the murder of a mayor’s aide—killed by a vampire—she never imagined she’d find herself at the vanguard of the NYPD’s latest special squad: the Supernatural Crimes Unit.Tasked with closing cases involving magic and monsters, the SCU has dealt with a shape-changing domovoy committing assault in Chelsea, the murder of a kappa on City Island, a thieving Taotie in Chinatown—and their latest: two murder victims whose corpses have been liquefied by a powerful spell.Kiernan and the rest of the SCU must find the connection between the two victims and figure out who cast the spell that destroyed the corpses. Soon, their investigation leads to a malevolent magic-user who yearns for limitless power, whose plans go far beyond disposing of dead bodies. He’ll stop at nothing to achieve his goals—including kidnapping Bobby, Kiernan’s ten-year-old son.The SCU has no choice: They must go rogue to find Bobby and stop the wizard before he unleashes hell on Earth!

About Keith R.A. DeCandido

Keith R.A. DeCandido (www.DeCandido.net) is the USA Today and Locus bestselling author of more than sixty novels, more than one hundred works of short fiction, more than seventy comic books, and more nonfiction than he’s comfortable counting. His work in the media tie-in field has earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and covered more than thirty different licensed universes, including TV shows (Star Trek: The Klingon Art of War, Supernatural: Nevermore), movies (Alien: Isolation, Cars: Rust Bucket Derby), games (Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness—The Beginning, World of Warcraft: Cycle of Hatred), comic books (Spider-Man: Down These Mean Streets, Thor: Dueling with Giants), and literary characters (Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Joe Ledger: Unstoppable). In addition, Keith has written extensively in worlds of his own creation, including other fantastical police procedurals in the fictional locales of Cliff’s End (Dragon Precinct and its sequels, the latest of which is Phoenix Precinct) and Super City (a novel and several shorter works featuring the Super City Police Department) and urban fantasy in New York City (the Adventures of Bram Gold, including A Furnace Sealed and Feat of Clay) and Key West (two short-story collections starring Cassie Zukav, weirdness magnet). He also writes about pop culture for a variety of places, most prolifically on the awardwinning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com). A veteran editor and anthologist, Keith recently co-edited Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms). Keith is also a professional musician (currently with the parody band, Boogie Knights), a dedicated New York Yankee fan (he sometimes does editorial work for the Society of American Baseball Research), and a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains, but regularly teaches children and adults). He lives in the Bronx with his wife and two unusually friendly black cats.

About Patricia Santomasso

Patricia Santomasso has always been an avid reader and storyteller. Her love of literature led her to earn a BA in English, and shortly afterward she moved from Connecticut to New York to study theater. She worked for years on stages around the country doing mostly classical plays and Shakespeare. It was there she met her husband, narrator Sean Patrick Hopkins, doing a production of As You Like It. Now she has merged her love of acting and the written word and happily reads stories out loud from the comfort of a booth. To date she has recorded over 150 audiobooks. Patricia's youthful voice and comic timing give heroines a warm relatability, and her surprising dips into baritone make her male characters engaging and believable. Paste Magazine has called her narration style "warm-but-tart," which she agrees is a fitting description. Patricia and Sean have a sweet baby daughter, Lyra Roisin, who isn't much interested in hearing either one of them read to her.

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“‘It’s New York. They find a way.’ Keith R.A. DeCandido’s latest series opener is a fast-moving read that mixes solid police procedurals and city politics with a touch of humor and a lot of magic. Weird is no big deal to the citizens of New York, and the officers of the Supernatural Crimes Unit are like any other, apart from the silver bullets and magically reinforced jail cells. The elected officials, mob bosses, and celebrities are neck-deep in scandal and corruption, mixed with drugs and ritual magic. DeCandido doesn’t believe in characters without back stories or relatives, so they feel real enough that you want them to make it to the end of the story. Come for the crime drama, stay for the cryptids and the pop-culture references. It’s an engrossing cop story with magic and heart. You’ll find yourself involved from page one, scrolling fast to find out what will happen next.” Jody Lynn Nye, author of the Lord Thomas Kinago books and coauthor of the Myth-Adventures of Aahz and Skeeve series

“Keith DeCandido is a remarkable storyteller. Fasten your seatbelt and open the book!” David Gerrold, award-winning author and creator of Star Trek’s Tribbles

“If you’re looking for probable cause to pick up Keith R.A. DeCandido’s latest series, here it is: From its oddly unconventional investigators to its rogues gallery of the most unusual suspects ever assembled, Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD is fresh, fun, and exciting. It blends DeCandido’s trademark witty banter with his knack for crafting utterly compelling procedural mysteries. Does this mean I’m actually confessing to being a fan of Keith’s new series? If that’s a crime, Your Honor, I’m guilty as charged.” David Mack, New York Times bestselling author

“DeCandido seamlessly blends two subgenres—urban fantasy and cop novel—into a fascinating fantasy world and an entertaining ensemble of detectives, and comes up with a truly original New York story.” Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Sisterhood of Dune and Nether Station

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