Crossed, Cursed, & Nearly Dead

Oh, my you've done it again!! I love it. Just like your trilogy, I can't stop reading. I already preordered for my Kindle. I've been on this journey from the very beginning, and it just keeps getting better!

Triple D Fun!
O.J.’s newest book is Excellent!!!
Having read all of her earlier books I was thrilled receiving this book from O.J.

Many of my favourite character’s are back as well as many new ones.

Her descriptions and writing make it so easy to visualize the various characters whether human, reptilian or familiars. As usual O.J. books evoke many feelings from laughter to sadness to horror and retribution. Usually I am not a vindictive person but this time I was all in .

Thanks O.J.!!! Need Bk 2 soon lol

BlurbCraft Studio - Barré turns midlife experience into a superpower in this fast, funny and unapologetically unconventional urban-fantasy thriller.

O. J. Barré launches her Triple-D Detectives series with an exuberant urban-fantasy thriller in which experience is a superpower, retirement proves highly negotiable, and three newly reunited sisters discover that midlife may be the ideal time to begin again.

Elise Johnson has spent decades carrying other people’s crises. Forced out of a formidable intelligence career and still contending with an inconvenient ghostly “hitchhiker,” she is hardly searching for another mission. Yet a murdered agent, Atlanta’s missing children and evidence of supernatural corruption within the authorities soon draw Elise and her sisters, Rona and Alexis — currently sharing the body of the irrepressible Honey Dewars — into a case extending far beneath the city.

Barré’s greatest success is her leading women. The triplets are gloriously imperfect: capable but bruised, funny without becoming frivolous, and mature enough to know that courage does not cancel exhaustion, grief or aching joints. Elise anchors the novel with flinty competence and a deeply concealed vulnerability, while Rona’s warmth and Alexis/Honey’s flamboyant unpredictability give the fledgling detective agency its distinctive chemistry. Their banter is lively, their disagreements feel affectionate and, beneath the magical mayhem, their rediscovered sisterhood supplies the story’s emotional heart.

Atlanta is more than a backdrop. From Oakland Cemetery and Underground Atlanta to Manuel’s Tavern and The Varsity, Barré uses the city’s landmarks, heat, history and Southern character to ground a sprawling supernatural world populated by Druids, ghosts, dragons, shifters and beings from UnderEarth. Returning readers will enjoy the connections to the wider Awen Universe, while newcomers receive enough guidance to follow the principal mystery — although the large ensemble and abundance of magical history reward attentive reading.

The narrative handles several intersecting investigations, alternating perspectives and an escalating conspiracy. Despite the darkness of the crimes at its centre, it repeatedly makes room for humour, tenderness and renewal. Particularly effective is the contrast between a high-stakes rescue operation and the women’s intensely human concerns: divorce, lost purpose, ageing bodies, complicated families and the frightening possibility of new love.

Fast, funny and unapologetically unconventional, “Crossed, CURSED, & Nearly Dead” introduces a detective team whose hard-earned resilience is every bit as compelling as their magic. Barré leaves enough shadows unexplored to promise that the Triple-D Detectives are only beginning to discover what they — and their wonderfully unruly world — can do.