Diary Of An Occult Resolution Assistant

By Chris Norgate

Thrust into a world where witches, vampires and fae command more than just your nightmares, Valentine Orphanet is on a journey not only of self discovery but into the murky world of grey between Black and White. With her new employer by her side, well at the end of a phone if she's lucky, Valentine has to stand up for those who can't, investigate those who operate in the murk and stop those who take without compassion.

From the big city streets to the mud covered lanes Valentine must walk the fine line of right and wrong to solve the mysteries of a suspected coven, who or what is mutilating cattle in the name of the occult and as she stumbles upon suspicions of kidnap and disappearances amongst the young girls of the countryside she must solve their loss and prevent anyone else losing their way.

She maybe young and inexperienced but she has a secret, something she hasn't told to her demonic employer the enigmatic Mr Xanthic, a music fills her soul whenever Others are close. It gives her an edge, a way of knowing when something not born of our world is near. Will it be enough to keep her alive?

But first she has to survive a stay in the wards of the NHS and recover from the injuries sustained on another research task that didn't follow the plan. It is here amongst the sick that something is preying on the weak and helpless. Children are sick for no apparent reason and slowly they slip away in sadness and the dark. A request to investigate goes wrong when she is drugged and then led away to a feral nest filled with demonic etchings, pentagrams and the detritus of a thousand dark ceremonies by a hospital porter with motives of his own.

Humans do not sit at top of the pyramid hierarchy of life in our world, they've stayed hidden for so long but now someone can see them though the universal song, how will they react when they find out?

Demons in the cleaning cupboard.
Witches are abroad.
Smoke Dancers dance,
And somewhere an Angelic librarian is baking very bad cakes.

Someone needs to find out what's happening and if possible bring everything to a satisfactory conclusion. All in a weeks work for Valentine Orphanet, all 13 days of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Norgate
• Release date: Apr 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311296603

Chris Norgate

Chris Norgate lives in Hampshire in England with his wife, children and small furry rodent like things and spends most his time playing with them or mucking them out - you decide which.Why write a book? After years of struggling with the written word dating back many years to being labelled at school (by a teacher who was too scared to call him thick) Chris has tried to find ways to not read or write. After having to write more reports for work and driving the automatic spell checker into meltdown, he sat down to make a list of the top ten misspelled words he makes......this soon turned into well over 100. So with a blogging site set up to try and get a short paragraph or two to constantly write words until spelt correct he started the diary; it was originally about his life and was as boring as a firework party under the sea, so he added things to make it more interesting. When comments on the blog started coming in that the girl character was very interesting - which surprised him as he was writing about himself, Chris changed 'her' into Valentine as it was the 13th Feb when he was looking for a name and it seemed a good one to go on with. And there it is, 17 months later a book has been created and now its been unleashed onto the world until Chris is paid an extortionate amount of money to take it away and smash the hard-drive its saved on.If Chris ever finds the courage to write another book he promises to try and put a plot into it.

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Reviews for Diary Of An Occult Resolution Assistant

[James Master · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Wish I'd read this first because I came by it from the short stories which come after this chronologically. But that made me more interested in how the characters got to where they were. I was not disappointed at all.
Ok, the short stories pack a punch because they need to be do this very thick novel meanders a bit but has action running along the way.
It's a demon among us thing, and you do get a lot of him stepping in to save the day, a modern deux machina thing, but as this it told in a diary format all the action is told from one person's point of view. If she's not there she's doesn't write about it until someone tells her. This means key plot points aren't spoiled because we don't know things are happening in the background until they happen. For those who like to guess what might happen by the actions of other may dislike this but I liked the originality of going along behind one person and seeing it through her eyes.
One of the best modern female leads. She might just be an employee but she's really a Boss.