It’s fun, if sometimes frustrating, to witness relationship, and other, misunderstandings from both characters’ POV. Whyborne and Griffin are endearing first-person narrators throughout the run of the series. Opposites immediately attract but their meet-cute is complicated in the first book, Widdershins, by murder, theft, and supernatural shenanigans that involve not only both men’s personal histories but the history of the town of Widdershins itself. The setting is late 1800s New England (the town of Widdershins, north of Boston) the title characters are a socially-awkward museum professor (Percival Endicott Whyborne, late of Miskatonic University) and a retired Pinkerton Detective who has moved to town to work as a private investigator (Griffin Flaherty, late of Chicago and before that the rural Midwest). The Whyborne & Griffin series mashes up Lovecraftian Mythos with urban fantasy and three different romance sub-genres: historical, paranormal, and m/m. Hawk’s 11-book Whyborne & Griffin series. The first was E.Catherine Tobler’s 6-book Folley & Mallory series, which I discussed in last week’s Series Saturday post. Two book series that I absolutely love for their detailed genre-mashup world-building and strong character development came to an end in 2019.
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