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Silence Fallen, by Patricia Briggs, Ace Books, 2017, $27, hardcover.
I took Patricia Briggs a little to task in my review of her last novel, Dead Heat, because I felt too much of the research was on the page, slowing down the story. Dead Heat is part of her Alpha and Omega series, which has ties to the Mercy Thompson books, and had the characters travel to Arizona to buy a horse. There was a lot about buying horses in that book.
Silence Fallen takes place mostly in Europe, with all sorts of opportunities to let the research take over the story, but in this case there was just the right amount of background woven into the plot. That made...