How to date your dragon - a southern love story

I've been reading Molly Harper's books for over ten years now and she never ceases to surprise me.
She has an incredible sense of humor and a knack to build interesting female and male characters that will keep me engaged throughout each of her books.

The first book I read was 'Nice girls don't have fangs' and I connected instantly with the main character who is a librarian that gets turned into a vampire after the town drunk idiot mistakes her for a deer while walking home, shots her and lets her to die on the side of the road.

While Molly's first and most famous series is concentrated around vampires, now she decided to go into a different direction: dragons!

'How to date your dragon' was a great surprise, not only for the change of subjects but because I decided to purchase it as an audio book. I can only say that this added an extra flavor to the book.
We have the main characters, Jillian Ramsay, brought to life by the narrator Amanda Ronconi and Bael Boone, portrayed by Jonathan Davis.
Jillian is an anthropologist that works for the League of Interspecies Cooperation and she unfortunately has to take her boss' place in documenting the life and habits of the locals in Mystic Bayou, a small town on the edge of Louisiana swamp. There are humans and supernatural creatures living there in perfect harmony since generations and she has to understand how they do it.

Her task is not simple. She has no previous field experience, Mystic Bayou it's in the middle of nowhere and puts her survival skills to test, and some of the locals are not so thrilled to have her around. The first one that would like to have her out of the town in a split second and far away from him as possible is the town sheriff, Bael Boone. While the town mayor, Zed Berend, a bear shifter, is all milk and honey with the newcomer, Bael is grinding his teeth and tries to keep the ringlets of smoke that float around his head when he's mad as hidden as possible. Because he's a dragon, and dragons are notoriously cranky.
The first days in Mystic Bayou seem promising for Jillian since the people she needs to interview for her job are very open to her. She gets to know and like a lot of shape shifters. She learns that you always let the Brownie choose the desert for you because she will always know better than you what you need and that is a bad idea to get to close to the Rift, the whole are magic source.
Things go downhill pretty fast when people/shifters start getting killed and Bael has no idea where to start looking for clues. He feels the need to protect Jillian and he opens up to her, revealing his magic form and his secrets.
The whole book is a classic mystery romance paranormal story with a southern touch which is the latest trend in Molly Harper's books.
An enjoyable easy read that can keep you entertained in cold evenings under the blanket :).