Attorney Petra Rakowtiz lives in a world much like ours...except that her latest client is a wizard.
In a society divided into those with magic and non-magic powers, Petra finds herself on the non-magical side of the equation, instead opting for a career making sure that all people—powerful or powerless—get the justice they deserve. Only her ideas of justice are tested when Petra's first murder case falls into her lap after her lead investigator is arrested for killing his ex-girlfriend. While Petra wants to believe he's innocent, her client conveniently keeps "forgetting" to tell her anything that makes him look bad. Suspects begin to pile up, including one who would kill to keep his secret and one who tempts Petra to let her guard down and fall in love again. And the fact that the accused is a wizard sends the press on a hate campaign, claiming his powers are enough to make him a danger to society. Petra might agree that magic can be unpredictable...especially when she suddenly posses those powers herself for the first time. With the Wizard Council threatening to lock her up for her inability to control her new power, and her client's life on the line if she doesn't prove him innocent, Petra has to make the real murderer appear before she herself disappears.
"Murder Casts Its Spell" by Margaret C. Morse is a murder mystery with a magic twist. Petra Rakowtiz is an attorney from a world where the population is divided by a magical line. Wizards are magic users and then there is everyone else. Adopted as a child, she grew up believing that she was just a normal human, but when a dysfunctional wizard attempts to bless her, Petra begins to notice she may not be as non magical as she once believed. Meanwhile, Petra has to continue working on a case that is both personal and potentially beneficial for her career. Can she keep it together long enough to exonerate her client? Overall, I enjoyed reading this novel. Morse is very detailed with her descriptions and is able to pull her readers into the story. It was a little slow at first, and it took me a few chapters to get into it, but once I past that point, I couldn't stop reading it until it was done.