Tempus Investigations: Season Two - Claus Holm

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Title: Tempus Investigations - Season Two
Author: Claus Holm
Genre: Suspence
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 271
Date read: December, 2018

Jim Corrigan was killed back in 1933. Today, he’s a private investigator on supernatural cases. Immortality is a bitch... but it does help.

Jim, Mercedes, Andrew, and Feline have their hands full. New supernatural threats keep hitting the city, and the Tempus Team are the only ones who can stop them! From the Bay Area to Las Vegas, from six-foot penguins to the return of San Francisco’s most notorious serial killer Zodiac, Tempus Investigations – Season two is bigger than ever before.


I loved the first season of Tempus Investigations, and finished it very quickly. So why did it take me more than a month to finish this one? Honestly, I don't know.

I think part of it was that the scene was set. I absolutely love world-building when it's done right (ask me why I love Mira Grant's "Feed" so much, when I hate zombies!), and that was part of what I loved about the first season, yet it (for obvious reasons) was almost completely non-existent in the second one.

Secondly, one of my biggest pet peeves with series is when they suddenly decide to add a long-running arc to a season. Double episodes are fine, but anything longer-running than that is hard to pull off without it bugging me, meaning that the entire Anderson arc didn't really work for me - mind you, this is a personal hang-up and has nothing at all to do with the quality of the book! :-P

But apart from that I did enjoy being back with Tempus Investigations. I grew a lot fonder of Mercedes and absolutely adored Huyana, so the episode about her was definitely my favourite, closely followed by the one with the shape-shifting shop-lifter! I was also glad to see Jim a lot more grounded than in the first season.