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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.

Fae/FaeriesUrban FantasyDetective FictionPlot-Driven
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A Kiss of Shadows

Laurell K. Hamilton · 468 pages

"All it would take was my true name being mentioned after dark, and it would float back to my aunt. She was the Queen of Air and Darkness, and that meant that anything said in the dark was hers to hear, eventually. The fact that spotting the missing Elven American Princess had become more popular than spotting Elvis helped. Her magic was always chasing blind leads. Princess Meredith skiing in Utah

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyFae/FaeriesPlot-Driven
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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.

Urban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorFae/FaeriesPlot-Driven
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Something from the Nightside

Simon R. Green · 230 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyPlot-DrivenDetective Fiction
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Full House

Rex Stout · 534 pages

Box SetPrivate InvestigatorBig CityDetective Fiction
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Dead Reckoning

Charlaine Harris · 336 pages

"With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover, Eric Northman, and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire w

Urban FantasyFae/FaeriesPlot-DrivenFantasy
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Bone Crossed

Patricia Briggs · 314 pages

New in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series.In a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people" (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy's found herself mai

Urban FantasyFae/FaeriesPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

Urban FantasyBig CityPlot-DrivenFast-Paced
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Burned

Karen Marie Moning · 475 pages

"MacKayla Lane and Jericho Barrons are back and hotter than ever in Burned, the latest novel in the blockbuster Fever series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning. It's easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing. MacKayla Lane would do anything to save the home she loves. A gifted sidhe-seer, she's already fought and defeated the deadly Sinsar Dubh--an ancient book

Urban FantasyBig CityFae/FaeriesPlot-Driven
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Magic Burns

Ilona Andrews · 272 pages

Urban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorPlot-DrivenFantasy
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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.

Urban FantasyFae/FaeriesPlot-DrivenFirst Person Narrator
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Spell Bound

Rachel Hawkins

Fae/FaeriesPlot-DrivenFast-PacedFantasy
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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

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyDetective ProtagonistFast-Paced
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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan · 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

Private InvestigatorBig CityDetective ProtagonistPlot-Driven
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The Cabinet of Curiosities

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 547 pages

In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again.

Big CityPrivate InvestigatorDetective ProtagonistDetective Fiction
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Thud!

Terry Pratchett · 398 pages

Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, ou

Big CityDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistPlot-Driven
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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyDetective FictionFirst Person Narrator
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The Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett · 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 InvestigatorBig CityPlot-DrivenDetective Fiction
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The Wrong Side of Goodbye

Michael Connelly · 392 pages

Private InvestigatorBig CityDetective FictionPlot-Driven
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The Last Detective

Robert Crais · 302 pages

Elvis Cole is back...With his acclaimed bestsellers, *Hostage* (a New York Times Notable Book) and *Demolition Angel*, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose. Now, in *The Last Detective*, Crais returns to his signature character, Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole, in a masterful page-turner that probes the meaning of family and t

Private InvestigatorBig CityDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyBig CityDetective Protagonist
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The Garrett Files

Glen Cook

Three stories: Sweet Silver Blues, Bitter Gold Hearts, Cold Copper Tears.

Box SetPrivate InvestigatorDetective ProtagonistFirst Person Narrator
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Rosemary and Rue

Seanan McGuire · 368 pages

The Fae never disappeared they just learned to hide themselves. Toby Daye is half fae and works as a private detective in San Francisco. When she is hired to investigate the murder of an old friend it brings up old secrets.

Urban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorFae/FaeriesDetective Protagonist
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