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Fool Moon

Jim Butcher · 342 pages

Dresden is a wizard that resides in Chicago. He is the only wizard in the yellow pages. He helps the Chicago Police solve mystery that goes bump in the night. But what happens when FBI gets involved? To add to the confusion, it seems there is more than wizard and magic in Chicago ... there are also werewolves!

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First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones · 328 pages

Meet Charley Davidson -- PI and grim reaper extraordinaire... Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to 'go into the light.' But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been

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Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton · 368 pages

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The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

Mario Acevedo · 354 pages

The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . . Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first h

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams · 304 pages

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost—Horror—Detective—Whodunit— Time—Travel—Romantic—Musical— Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective — well, a sort of detective.. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever

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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages

"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.

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Hounded

Kevin Hearne · 352 pages

Two-thousand-year-old druid Atticus O'Sullivan, Granuaile and the wolfhound Oberon race across modern-day Europe to try to escape the clutches of Olympian goddesses Artemis and Diana and the Norse god of mischief, Loki.

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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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For a Few Demons More

Kim Harrison · 464 pages

Rachel Morgan is a witch/bounty hunter based in the Hollows, the section of Cincinnati where supernatural beings live. She here must protect an artifact from all sorts of creatures while proving a werewolf friend innocent of serial murders.

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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

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Anonymous Rex

Eric Garcia · 303 pages

**Publisher's summary:** Private investigator Vincent Rubio is down on his luck: He's out of work. His car's been repossessed. He's been banned from The Council. His partner has died under mysterious circumstances. And his tail just won't stay put. Vincent is a dinosaur - a velociraptor, to be precise. The dinosaurs faked their extinction 65 million years ago and still roam the planet, wrapped up

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Undead and Unwed

MaryJanice Davidson · 277 pages

First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries.

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Greywalker

Kat Richardson · 352 pages

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Hunted by the Others

Jess Haines · 352 pages

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Magic Bites

Ilona Andrews · 260 pages

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Something from the Nightside

Simon R. Green · 230 pages

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Shadow Sight

E.J. Stevens · 242 pages

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Pale as a Ghost

Stephen Osborne · 190 pages

Private detective Duncan Andrews' best friend Gina is a witch, his dog is a zombie, and his dead boyfriend Robbie is a ghost. His connection to the supernatural helps him solve cases: Janice Sanderson, richest woman in Indianapolis, wants him to find her stripper daughter, Brenda; another client is having some trouble with a specter haunting her family home. And Duncan has decided to add dating i

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Lost Soul

Adam J. Wright · 224 pages

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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Sweet Silver Blues

Glen Cook · 255 pages

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Vampire Games

J.R. Rain · 230 pages

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Modern Sorcery

Gary Jonas · 251 pages

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A Kiss Before the Apocalypse

Thomas E. Sniegoski · 292 pages

Generations ago, angel Remiel chose to renounce heaven and live on Earth. He found a place among ordinary humans by converting himself into Boston P.I. Remy Chandler, but he can never tell anyone who he was or that he still has angelic powers. Remy can will himself invisible, speak and understand any foreign language (including any animal language), and hear the thoughts of others. All these secre

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