Complete Alex Craft series by Kalayna Price: “Add some mystery, some romance, some horror…anything goes.”
Looking at the books in the urban fantasy series starring a witch who solves crimes speaking to the dead.
“I enjoy working in a world that is recognizable but with a magical overlay. I like the endless possibilities available to work with.”
Author Kalayna Price draws her ideas from the world around her, her studies into ancient mythologies, and her obsession with classic folklore. She is best known for her Alex Craft novels, an urban fantasy series starring a witch who solves crimes by speaking to the dead.
“On the world building side,” Price told The Qwillery, “I enjoy working in a world that is recognizable but with a magical overlay. On the plotting side, I like the endless possibilities available to work with: add some mystery, some romance, some horror, etc.—anything goes. The readers of this genre are very well read and very accepting of other genre aspects in their stories.”
Price tried writing her first novel when she was 12—but says it was the first of many false starts. As she explained to The Reading Cafe, she didn’t get serious about writing until she was 23. “Then I actually sat down and worked through the stumbling blocks that had always stopped me before and wrote my first real novel in just under three months.”
Price was also one of the authors in the anthology Kicking It, which features urban fantasy stories that prove when you’re fighting supernatural forces, it helps to keep your feet on the ground. The book also includes stories from Rachel Caine, Faith Hunter, Chloe Neill, and more.
Below we have more info about each book in the Alex Craft series.
Alex Craft Series
Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, but that doesn’t mean she likes what they have to say.
Grave Witch: Alex Craft Series Book 1 (2010)
As a private investigator and consultant for the police, Alex Craft has seen a lot of dark magic. But even though she's on good terms with Death himself, nothing has prepared her for her latest case. When she’s raising a “shade” involved in a high profile murder, it attacks her, and then someone makes an attempt on her life.
Someone really doesn’t want her to know what the dead have to say, and she'll have to work with mysterious homicide detective Falin Andrews to figure out why....
Grave Dance: Alex Craft Series Book 2 (2011)
After a month of down time, Grave Witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead.
With her love life in turmoil, Alex is eager for the distractions of work.
But when her new case forces her to overuse her magic, it might be the last mystery the Grave Witch ever gets to solve...
Grave Memory: Alex Craft Series Book 3 (2012)
As a Grave Witch, Alex solves murders by raising the dead—an ability that comes at a cost, and after her last few cases, that cost is compounding.
But her magic isn’t the only thing causing havoc in her life. While she’s always been on friendly terms with Death himself, things have recently become a whole lot more close and personal.
Then there’s her sometime partner, agent Falin Andrews, who is under the glamour of the Winter Queen. To top everything off, her best friend has been forever changed by her time spent captive in Faerie.
But the personal takes a backseat to the professional when a string of suicides occur in Nekros City and Alex is hired to investigate. The shades have no memory of the days leading up to their brutal endings, so despite the very public apparent suicides, this is murder.
But what kind of magic can overcome the human will to survive? And why do the shades lack the memory of their deaths? Searching for the answer might mean Alex won’t have a life to remember at all…
Grave Visions: Alex Craft Series Book 4 (2016)
The USA Today bestselling author of Grave Memory and Grave Dance returns with her bewitching heroine Alex Craft in a new novel of twisting urban fantasy where the secrets of the dead can wreak havoc on the living.
If you want to hear voices from the dead in Nekros City, you call Alex Craft. She’s a grave witch with reasonable rates and extraordinary powers who specializes in revealing the secrets of the dead. But she has her own secrets. She’s not human—and her newly discovered heritage is causing havoc for her both in the human realm and in Faerie.
Fae can’t survive without a tie to Faerie, and now that Alex’s true nature has awoken, she’s no exception. She must align herself to a court and soon. To retain as much freedom as possible, she makes a deal to track the source of a new glamour-infused street drug which causes hallucinations that kill—and not just the user.
Her investigation entangles Alex in a conflict brewing in Faerie, and she must find answers before she’s dragged so deep that she loses not only her freedom, but her life.
Grave Ransom: Alex Craft Series Book 5 (2017)
In the thrilling new novel from USA Today bestselling author Kalayna Price, Alex Craft comes face-to-face with the walking dead….
Grave witch Alex Craft is no stranger to the dead talking. She raises shades, works with ghosts, and is dating Death himself. But the dead walking? That’s not supposed to happen. And yet reanimated corpses are committing crimes across Nekros City.
Alex’s investigation leads her deep into a web of sinister magic. When Briar Darque of the Magical Crimes Investigation Bureau gets involved, Alex finds herself with an unexpected ally of sorts. But as the dead continue to rise and wreak havoc on the living, can she get to the soul of the matter in time?
Grave Destiny: Alex Craft Series Book 6 (2019)
Grave witch Alex Craft can speak to the dead, and that makes her a dangerous enemy for anyone with something to hide. . . .
Alex is still trying to come to terms with her changing powers and her growing ties to Faerie when a case she’d rather avoid falls right into her lap. A fae prince desperately needs Alex to investigate a politically sensitive murder.
She reluctantly agrees to the case, taking FIB agent Falin Andrews along as her backup.
But as Alex begins to delve into the mystery, she realizes that the intricate web of alliances and intrigue in the Faerie courts is strained to its limits. War is about to break out, one that threatens to spill over into the mortal realm.
This murder is tied right to the center of centuries-old arcane unrest, and if Alex isn’t careful she may follow the twisting path ahead of her right into her grave end.
Grave War: Alex Craft Series Book 7 (2020)
Grave witch Alex Craft is getting pulled back into deadly fae politics in the thrilling new novel in the USA Today bestselling series.
Grave witch Alex Craft has forged an uneasy truce with the world of Faerie, but she's still been trying to maintain at least some semblance of a normal life in the human world. So it's safe to say that stepping up as the lead investigator for the Fae Investigation Bureau was not a career path she ever anticipated taking.
When an explosion at the Eternal Bloom threatens to upend the fae who make their home in our world, Alex finds herself in charge of the most far-reaching investigation she's ever tackled. And it's only her first week on the job.
With the threats mounting and cut off from half her allies, Alex can't wait on the sidelines and hope the fae's conflicts stay contained within their borders.
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