Book cover and e-reader display artwork for "Paranormal Crimes Unit: Book I," featuring Detective Sam Kane in a suit, a mysterious woman, and a large wolf against a moonlit background—perfect for fans of Beyond Geek and producer Joe Gillis.
Book and ebook cover for Paranormal Crimes Unit by Joe Gillis, featuring a detective, a female vampire, and a werewolf against a moonlit cityscape, with the tagline: “In a world where vampires are real, the deadliest monsters wear lab coats.”

PaRanOrmal CRimes Unit

In a world where vampires are real, the deadliest monsters wear lab coats.

Six years ago, the supernatural world came out of hiding. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, spirits, and everything in between stepped into the open, demanded civil rights, and got them. Now they hold jobs, pay taxes, file complaints with HR, and occasionally commit crimes that no human detective has ever had to solve.

Enter Detective Sam Kane—a financial crimes specialist who’s spent his career following money trails, not blood trails. When a routine embezzlement case collides with the supernatural world, Kane finds himself reassigned to the Paranormal Crimes Unit, partnered with a 300-year-old vampire detective who quotes movies he’s never seen and a werewolf with a nose for evidence and zero patience for paperwork.

Kane doesn’t have super strength. He can’t fly. He doesn’t sparkle. What he has is a calculator, a bad attitude, and the stubborn conviction that even monsters leave a paper trail.

In a world where the undead need health insurance, transformations require consent forms, and a single crime scene might involve three species and four jurisdictions, the real villain isn’t the supernatural—it’s the bureaucracy. But behind the mountains of paperwork and interdepartmental memos, something darker is moving. Something with power, patience, and plans that stretch far beyond one detective’s caseload.

The Paranormal Crimes Unit series is Dresden Files meets Brooklyn Nine-Nine—a fast-paced blend of supernatural mystery, buddy-cop comedy, and genuine heart, where the cases are strange, the stakes are real, and every form is filed in triplicate.

Perfect for fans of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, and anyone who’s ever wondered what happens when you add vampires to government paperwork.

Sacramento PD Species Roster

Meet the Monsters

The Paranormal Crimes Unit didn't just integrate supernatural officers. It gave them badges, parking spots, and performance reviews. Here's who's on the force.

Vampire fangs with blood
Vampires Undead
Detective Connie Valdez has been solving crimes longer than her partner's grandparents have been alive. She reads financial documents the way predators read prey — with patience, precision, and the quiet certainty that she'll find what she's looking for. She drinks from insulated bags now. Mostly. The fangs still come out when suspects lie to her face.
20% of Sacramento PD · UV-sensitive parking · Covered under Nocturnal Officers Act
Werewolf pack in a city street
Werewolves Alive-ish
Rex Howland joined the Special Tracking Unit because his nose is better than any K-9 on the force. He drinks wolfsbane whiskey because regular alcohol can't touch him. He's heard every slur integration made illegal but didn't make disappear. Pack law predates human law — and when someone hurts pack, the instinct to hunt them down doesn't care about warrants.
10% of Sacramento PD · Extra-wide parking · Mandatory full moon transformation equipment
Zombie in a suit holding file folders
Zombies Undead
Forget everything Hollywood told you. They work in records management, wait tables at the Crimson Moon, and wear buttons that say "Yes, I'm Dead. No, I Don't Want Your Brains." Bonnie the waitress shuffles — literally shuffles — but she owns it. They can projectile vomit when agitated, though. The certification course didn't mention that.
Protected under the Americans with Deathabilities Act · Reanimated American parking
Ghost in a police evidence room
Ghosts & Spirits Incorporeal
The spirit cop in the freight elevator can't control her electrical interference when she's stressed — and she's stressed a lot since her performance review said she's not "embracing modern policing methods." Meanwhile, victims of botched vampire transformations are manifesting as something worse — stuck between human death and supernatural rebirth, appearing in evidence rooms, pointing at financial documents. Screaming.
5% of Sacramento PD · Electrical interference incidents logged quarterly
Trevor the troll bouncer extending a handshake
Trolls Alive
Trevor the bouncer at the Crimson Moon has skin like granite, teeth that could bite through steel, and a name tag that says "Hi, I'm Trevor." He shakes your hand carefully because he's afraid he might break it. His cousins run the freeway construction union — and since trolls feed on human anger, every Sacramento freeway is permanently under construction. This is not a coincidence.
Troll and Other Large Entity Access door · Species Weight Limit Violation repairs ongoing
Two witches changing the color of their drinks with magic
Witches & Sirens Supernatural
Two witches sat at the bar, making their drinks change colors with casual gestures — like it was nothing. The siren on stage made the Bee Gees sound like amateurs. When she sang, the entire bar turned, because you physically cannot ignore a siren's voice. She launched into "Stayin' Alive" as a dedication to the PCU team. Ironic, given the context.
10% of Sacramento PD (spellcasters) · Crimson Moon bar regulars
A Paranormal Crimes Unit Guide

The Revelation

The day the supernatural world stopped hiding. Six years later, humanity is still figuring out the paperwork. Here's how it happened, year by year.

World of the Paranormal Crimes Unit
This is just the world. The story is worse.
Detective Sam Kane spent six years avoiding all of this. Then his star witness turned up dead with vampire bite marks. Now he's partnered with a vampire and a werewolf, and the paperwork is the least of his problems.
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Timeline drawn from published chapters. Spoiler-free \u2014 the investigation is in the book.
A woman in a dark suit stands with arms crossed in an office, next to a desk and a bulletin board covered in photos connected by red string.

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