Dead in the Delta is a different take on the popular fairy stories that are out there right now. In Jay's created world, fairies have always been arounfd, but a number of years ago they went through a mutation where they became visible to humans (although they are still very small) and their bite becomes deadly. Some humans, however, are immune. Such as our heroine Annabelle Lee. She in turn helps the police, FBI, whoever, with cases the involve getting close to the fairies. 
 We start the book out with Annabelle looking over the body of a little girl found in the Bayou. From there the story takes off like a "closed room" murder mysteries where it can only be someone who lives in Donaldsonville, but who is it? As Annabelle goes through the list of suspects she becomes more entangled in the mystery until someone is out to get her as well. 
 While I will admit I was able to figure out "who-done-it" before the big reveal at the end, I still enjoyed to world that StaceyJay created. She has a very interesting and different take on fairies. They are not these beautiful ethereal species that are depicted a lot in literature, but they are blood hungry and mean. 
 Annabelle was a good character. She has a lot of faults about her. She had family problems when she was younger and now she's an alcoholic, but you'll continually see her making excuses to the contrary. I didn't so much mind her addiction, but there were quite a few times I wanted her to take a step back and see that taking the drink was not a good idea. I was a little surprised that no one else seemed to see it, but maybe that's why she's an addict. She hides it well. 
 This was probably the first time that I've ever rooted for the other guy. Usually I'm all for the ex coming back into the picture and the ex and the heroine finding out they still have feelings for each other and everything is happy in the end. Here, I just wanted Hitch to get as far away from Annabelle as possible, and I wanted so badly for Annabelle to realize that she's better off without him. Annabelle seems to understand that he's in a relationship, so hopefully that will keep her from making poor decisions where he's concerned in the future of the series. 
 I really liked Cane, Annabelle's current boyfriend. Like stated above, I just hope she doesn't make any poor decisions with Hitch to ruin the wonderful relationship she has with Cane. He's a police detective in Donaldsonville and they've been together for a year and a half. He's very patient with Annabelle and seems to really understand who she is even though she is not the most emotionally available person. 
 The ending is definitely figured out, however, we are left with the direction I believe the second book with pick up, and if that's the case I'm a little aprehensive about it, but I'm still interested enough to see where it goes. I think this is a promising start to a series, there were a couple of things left open. Questions unanswered, and hopefully we'll get a little more closure with those in Blood on the Bayou at the end of March. Until Then!