Lisa Shearin
5 SeriesLisa Shearin is an American author known for her contemporary and urban fantasy novels, including the Raine Benares and SPI Files series. She has also worked professionally as a magazine editor, advertising copywriter, and corporate marketing material writer. Shearin resides on a small farm in North Carolina with her husband and three retired greyhounds.
In "The Grendel Affair" by Lisa Shearin, the first book of the SPI Files series, Makenna Fraser, a Seer for the Supernatural Protection & Investigations (SPI), uses her ability to see through paranormal disguises to track down supernatural threats in New York City. Alongside her partner, Ian Byrne, Makenna faces routine cases until a sickle-wielding serial killer, a descendant of the legendary Grendel, emerges in the subway tunnels. With New Year's Eve in Times Square approaching, they must stop the killer, who despises revelry, before he ruins the celebration and exposes SPI's secret existence.
