Curse of the Phoenix

The Arcane Irregulars, Book 1

By: Dan Willis

Narrated by: Alex Knox

When a trail of magical murders follow a stolen statue, Lieutenant Danny Pak and FBI Agent Buddy Redhorn have to get it back before its dire curse falls on the city.

New York Police Lieutenant Danny Pak has a problem. When one of his officers calls him out to an unusual crime scene, Danny realizes that it’s terrifyingly similar to something the department thought was dead and buried. Now he has to find a madman before the story hits the papers and the city explodes into chaos.

Across town, Agent William “Buddy” Redhorn of the FBI has two problems. He’s been assigned a potentially career-ending case with magical ties, and his sorceress boss is out of town. The case involves a stolen statue that belongs to the government of Brunei, but the more he chases the thieves, the more bodies begin to drop. Bodies affected by a strange, unknown magic.

Resolving to work together, Danny and Redhorn have to catch a cold-blooded killer, recover a stolen artifact, all while keeping everything out of the press. If they don’t, it will be more than their careers that will die when the curse of the Jade Phoenix descends on New York.

Important Note: Curse of the Phoenix takes place in the Arcane Casebook universe. If you haven't listened to any of those, you might want to start there.

©2021 Dan Willis (P)2022 Dan Willis

Excellent story

An amazing addition to the arcane casebook series where it expands the world building to mainly focus on the secondary characters. Motivations by the characters are solid, storyline has a few good twists.

Character Development

I really enjoyed the spin off of the Arcane books I am so glad they got their own story

An excellent spinoff to make for a great series.

Loved it, especially fleshing out more on Redhorn and other regular reoccurring characters. The story seemed a little disjointed at first, but it all flows together nicely, and quickly.

nice addition

this book takes place in the world of Alex Knox, Runewright Detective, and really you need to read those books first. That being said, the book really adds to the depth of all the characters in the main books

Fun read!

This is a nice start to a side thread to the Arcane Casebook series with some of the best characters.

Great story

loved the story but missed alex. looking forward to more with same characters and hope they are fleshed out even more

Excellent spinoff

The arcane universe is flexible enough to have more than one series in it.
Good plot and likable leads made it a fast and fun listen.

a nice fleshing out of the arcane universe

focus on background of key characters and gives them more of a role I the arcane universe