Gunmetal Magic - Ilona Andrews

A series popular enough to have spinoffs. Here Kate's partner gun nut fferently flavoured werehyena disgraced knight narcoclosetphile Andrea gets to star. At a very down time for her she gets asked to investigate the murder of four shapeshifters and a room of artifacts that shouldn't exist. The former working for her estranged boyfriend which makes things a bit more unpleasant. Before she can even get to that, monsters try and kill a neighbour. Even gets a kid sidekick. More fun and often funny monster fighting deity slicing mayhem to be had here. 4 out of 5