Doppelgangster Dramatized Adaptation..., Laura Resnick
Doppelgangster Dramatized Adaptation..., Laura Resnick
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Synopsis

A struggling actress, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York City from Evil, a skeptical cop—and double the number of wiseguys that there should be….

While working as a singing waitress in Little Italy, struggling actress Esther Diamond witnesses a mob hit. And right before getting whacked out, the victim tells her that he just saw his own doppio—a perfect double and a notorious portent of death.

Before long, more döppelgangers start haunting New York's mobsters, who are subsequently getting bumped off in mysterious ways. Meanwhile, Esther's new love-interest, Detective Connor Lopez, gets transferred to the NYPD's organized crime unit and is assigned to investigate these hits.

Determined to prevent the murder of more of her restaurant customers, which slayings will soon lead to a mob war, Esther tries to uncover the evil genius behind the deadly doppelgangsters. Along with a 350 -year-old sorcerer and an aging hit man, Esther delves deep into the world of wiseguys in pursuit of a ruthlessly mystical murderer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James

See my full thoughts here: [URL not allowed] There's a scene in Doppelgangster where the protagonist beats an evil sorcerer with a dead chicken. That says just about everything, I think. This book is cheesy and stupid, but it very clearly understands that and is just having fun with it. The......more

When I first saw the cover of Doppleganster, I was intrigued. I quickly learned I'd be circumnavigating the world Laura Resnick created without the context of book one to walk me through. Preceding Dopplegangster, the first book in the Esther Diamond series, “Disappearing Nightly”’ which at the time......more

Solid genre book. World: The world buiding is solid, nothing creative here and pretty much all the pieces here can be found in another book in the urban fantasty genre. That being said, it was still fun, the gangster angle was kinda stereotypical fun of the genre. The expansion of the cast of charact......more