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For a Few Demons More

Kim Harrison Β· 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.

Witches & WitchcraftUrban FantasyPlot-DrivenPrivate Investigator
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Midnight Riot

Ben Aaronovitch Β· 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.

Urban FantasyDry HumorPlot-DrivenVampires
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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead Β· 368 pages

Urban FantasyDry HumorPlot-DrivenWitty Banter
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Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton Β· 368 pages

Urban FantasyPlot-DrivenPrivate InvestigatorDetective Fiction
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Dead to the World

Charlaine Harris Β· 308 pages

It's not every day that you come across a naked man on the side of the road. That's why cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse doesn't just drive on by. Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who he is, but Sookie does. It's Eric the vampire - but now he's a kinder, gentler Eric. And a scared Eric, because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie's investigation into who and why leads strai

Urban FantasyWitches & WitchcraftPlot-DrivenDry Humor
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Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs Β· 334 pages

Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.

Urban FantasyWitches & WitchcraftDemonsPlot-Driven
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Hounded

Kevin Hearne Β· 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.

Urban FantasyWitches & WitchcraftPlot-DrivenWitty Banter
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Haunted

Kelley Armstrong Β· 495 pages

THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF THE SMART, SEXY -- SUPERNATURAL -- WOMEN OF THE OTHERWORLDEve Levine -- half-demon, black witch and devoted mother -- has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again -- which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad -- all she needs to do is find a way to communicat

Urban FantasyWitches & WitchcraftDemonsDry Humor
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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins Β· 336 pages

Witches & WitchcraftUrban FantasyWitty BanterDry Humor
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Something from the Nightside

Simon R. Green Β· 230 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyPlot-DrivenDemons
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Magic Slays

Ilona Andrews Β· 308 pages

Kate Daniels has quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but starting her own business isn't easy when the Order starts disparaging her good name. And being the mate of the Beast Lord doesn't bring in the customers, either. So when Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead asks for help with a vampire, Kate jumps at the chance. Unfortunately, this is one case where Kate should have looked before she leapt.

Urban FantasyPlot-DrivenPrivate InvestigatorDry Humor
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Live Wire

Harlan Coben Β· 384 pages

Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth? Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client’s interests so fiercely that he can’t help but jump in to save th

Private InvestigatorPlot-DrivenDry HumorWitty Banter
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A is for Alibi

Sue Grafton Β· 244 pages

A IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ag

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionPlot-DrivenDetective Protagonist
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The Cuckoo's Calling

J.K. Rowling Β· 480 pages

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the

Private InvestigatorDry HumorDetective FictionPlot-Driven
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City of Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare Β· 434 pages

Trust is dangerous, and to love is to destroy. Plunge into the fourth installment in the internationally bestselling **Mortal Instruments** series and *"prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly).* The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power

Urban FantasyPlot-DrivenVampiresWitches & Witchcraft
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First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones Β· 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

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyDemonsWitty Banter
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Douglas Adams Β· 276 pages

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163715W), an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a p

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistDry Humor
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The A.B.C. Murders

Agatha Christie Β· 252 pages

There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught - until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans . . .

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistPlot-Driven
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The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett Β· 460 pages

Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, rub

Dry HumorDetective ProtagonistDetective FictionPlot-Driven
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The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett Β· 197 pages

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionDry HumorDetective Protagonist
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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler Β· 220 pages

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

Private InvestigatorDetective FictionDry HumorPlot-Driven
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Undead and Unwed

MaryJanice Davidson Β· 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.

Dry HumorUrban FantasyWitty BanterPlot-Driven
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Hard Spell

Justin Gustainis Β· 394 pages

"Stan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. Like the rest of America, Scranton's got an uneasy 'live and let unlive' relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that's when they call Markowski. He carries a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes,

Urban FantasyDetective ProtagonistDry HumorVampires
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley Β· 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

Dry HumorDetective ProtagonistDetective FictionPlot-Driven
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