Supernatural Crimes Unit: NYPD

The Thin Blue Ley-Line (The Supernatural Crimes Unit, Book 1)

By: Keith R.A. DeCandido

Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso

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!

©2025 Keith R.A. DeCandido (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

A good police procedual

This book feels like a good pilot tv movie for a new police procedural series. It has action and some comedy but it also shows a nitty gritty look behind the scenes of policing, especially when supernatural creatures are involved and the book is still being written. I can’t wait to read the next in the series.

Good story. Wrong narrator.

The narrator turn a good story into a yawn. The lack of inflection muddled part of the story in particular,when the characters recollected past events. It is a urban fantasy and police procedural so... plenty of action but not for this narrator;she turned a lively story into a bedtime story. Ms Patricia Santomasso is absolutely the wrong narrator for this type of books.
The MC is feisty,the other characters have interesting lives with plenty of avenues for future developments and the action is non stop.
Even though the narrator did a poor job, don't let her discourage you from listening to a good tale.
Let's hope Audible pick a suitable narrator for the rest of the series.
I look forward to the second installment.

Great Story and Characters

My first read from this author, and I really enjoyed everything about it. Great story setup and a wonderful cast of characters. Hoping to see this turn into a series.

disappointing 😞

I only made it 30 minutes into the story the narrator monotone voice was putting me to sleep. the characters were not very interesting . I had high hopes but was let down on all fronts.