{"id":4380,"date":"2014-01-22T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T23:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2024-01-22T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:40:49","slug":"known-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4380","title":{"rendered":"Known Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00A9ET1BQ\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00A9ET1BQ&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=randomreading-20\">Known Devil<\/a><\/em> (2014) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/gustainis_justin.php\">Justin Gustainis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00A9ET1BQ\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00A9ET1BQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=randomreading-20\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/KnownDevil.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"KnownDevil\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4381\" \/><\/a>Stan Markowski is a Sergeant in the Occult Crimes Unit of the Scranton Police. His daughter and his partner are both vampires, but he doesn&#8217;t hold that against them. (He can&#8217;t, really, since it&#8217;s his fault they&#8217;re vampires.)<\/p>\n<p>It was believed that only goblins were affected by intoxicating substances (in the case of goblins, that would be meth) but the two strung out elves attempting to hold up the diner where Stan and his partner Karl are trying to relax says otherwise. The discovery of Slide seems to be changing the game in Scranton&#8211;and in a way that may well make things harder for Stan and the rest of the Occult Crimes Unit.<\/p>\n<p>I love supernatural noir, especially when it&#8217;s well done. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, what&#8217;s not to love about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he \u2013 or she \u2013 wanted to be the capo di tutti supi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or even the normal police procedural snark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cops at crime scenes don&#8217;t have to park at crazy angles that nobody else would imitate \u2013 we do it because we can.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or just regular snark:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCould be a coincidence, I suppose.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou see that a lot in our business?\u201d I asked him.<br \/>\n\u201cNot so much, no,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the little bit he drops in passing that never fail to crack me up, like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The book I\u2019d bought was Sematary Danse, the new expos\u00e9 of the funeral industry by that true-crime writer, Stephen King.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mystery is pretty good, but really, it&#8217;s the dialog and the wit that make the story so enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>One negative note, however.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the WORST covers I have ever seen.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/KnownDevil.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/KnownDevil.jpg?resize=197%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"KnownDevil\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4381\" \/><\/a>Click on this cover to see it full size, in all it&#8217;s horrific glory.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just awful. I mean, I get the pulp vibe they&#8217;re going for, but this is just horrible.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, with the eBook, you don&#8217;t have to look at the cover.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a fun romp, I can highly recommend this series&#8211;go ahead and start at the first book and read your way through.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/13642274\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known Devil (2014) Justin Gustainis Stan Markowski is a Sergeant in the Occult Crimes Unit of the Scranton Police. His daughter and his partner are both vampires, but he doesn&#8217;t hold that against them. (He can&#8217;t, really, since it&#8217;s his fault they&#8217;re vampires.) It was believed that only goblins were affected by intoxicating substances (in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,203,292,2,8,42,16],"tags":[132,133,313,217],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-bad","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-police","category-supernatural","tag-justin-gustainis","tag-occult-crimes-unit","tag-vampires","tag-witches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-18E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22223,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22223","url_meta":{"origin":4380,"position":0},"title":"Known Devil","author":"Michelle","date":"September 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Known Devil (2014) Justin Gustainis (Occult Crimes Unit Investigation) Karl hadn\u2019t complained about taking the damaged elf to the hospital. 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Cops on the Supe Squad spend as much time investigating crimes committed against supes as we do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"hard-spell","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hard-spell-198x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3957,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/3957","url_meta":{"origin":4380,"position":3},"title":"Evil Dark","author":"Michelle","date":"January 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Evil Dark (2012) Justin Gustainis Stan Markowski is still on the supe squad in Scranton, still looking into crime committed by and\/or against supernatural creatures, and this time a series of murders looks to be tied together, but the answer to cui bono is nowhere to be found. 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