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Blood Follows

Steven Erikson · 107 pages

All is not well in Lamentable Moll. A sinister, diabolical killer stalks the port city's narrow, barrow-humped streets, and panic grips the citizens like a fever. Emancipor Reese is no exception, and indeed, with his legendary ill luck, it's worse for him than for most. Not only was his previous employer the unknown killer's latest victim, but Emancipor is out of work. But perhaps his luck has

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Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · 448 pages

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The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie · 531 pages

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glo

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Devil's Paw

Debra Dunbar · 328 pages

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The Blacktongue Thief

Christopher Buehlman · 416 pages

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Dead Things

Stephen Blackmoore · 304 pages

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Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy

Brynne Weaver · 351 pages

Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, o

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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer

Lish McBride · 342 pages

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

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Sir Apropos of Nothing

Peter David · 575 pages

They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years later looking to settle the score...The result's unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reas

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The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer · 304 pages

Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet, der sich in der Gewalt einer skrupellosen Erpresserbande befinden soll. Doch Artemis hat ungewöhnliche Verbündete auf seiner Seite und natürlich auch schon einen Plan im Kopf. Einen gefährlichen Plan.

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Grave Peril

Jim Butcher · 405 pages

Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago's only professional wizard.But in all of Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All o

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How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Django Wexler · 392 pages

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Long Live Evil

Sarah Rees Brennan · 431 pages

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Mother Night

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 202 pages

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

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Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Matt Dinniman · 366 pages

"The training levels have concluded. Now the games may truly begin." The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropol

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Red Seas Under Red Skies

Scott Lynch · 588 pages

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidek

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Mogworld

Yahtzee Croshaw · 336 pages

Jim, a dead former-magic student, has been wrenched from eternal slumber by an renegade necromancer. All he wants to do is die properly, once and for all, but the necromancer has other plans involving angry adventurers, an inept thief, shambling corpses, and a team of programmers.

NecromancyDark ComedyFantasyMale Lead
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Death Bringer

Derek Landy · 605 pages

The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that's a good thing. The catch? They don't need her any more because they've found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death. And that's a very, very bad thing ... The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer. There's a reason they don't need her any more.

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Magic Gifts

Ilona Andrews

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Promise of the Witch King

R.A. Salvatore · 368 pages

Follows the power-hungry dark elf Jarlaxle and his assassin compatriot, Artemis Entreri, as they battle evil forces.

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Don't Point that Thing at Me

Kyril Bonfiglioli · 176 pages

Don't Point that Thing at Me is the hilarious and dark humored crime thriller featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai: degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and general knave-about-Piccadilly. With his thuggish manservant Jock, Mortdecai endures all manner of nastiness involving secret police, angry foreign governments, stolen paintings, and dead clien

Anti-HeroDark ComedyWitty BanterMale Lead
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Devil in the Dollhouse

Richard Kadrey

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