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A Walk on the Nightside

Simon R. Green · 400 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyLondonDemons
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Ghost Story

Jim Butcher · 481 pages

" When we last left the mighty wizard detective Harry Dresden, he wasn’t doing well. In fact, he had been murdered by an unknown assassin. But being dead doesn’t stop him when his friends are in danger. Except now he has no body, and no magic to help him. And there are also several dark spirits roaming the Chicago shadows who owe Harry some payback of their own. To save his friend

Ghosts & HauntingsUrban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorDry Humor
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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.

Urban FantasyGhosts & HauntingsDry HumorLondon
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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

Ghosts & HauntingsUrban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorDemons
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Vanished

Kat Richardson

The toughest case yet for Greywalker and P.I. Harper Blaine, “a great heroine” (New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris), has arrived.Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her in all sorts of “str

Ghosts & HauntingsUrban FantasyLondonPrivate Investigator
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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 InvestigatorDemonsDry Humor
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The Laughing Corpse

Laurell K. Hamilton · 320 pages

Urban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorGhosts & HauntingsDemons
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Haunted

Kelley Armstrong · 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

Ghosts & HauntingsUrban FantasyDemonsDry Humor
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Kill City Blues

Richard Kadrey · 383 pages

Settled back in L.A., James Stark (aka Sandman Slim) must find a dead man, recover an ancient artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods -- and natural-born killers -- on his tail.

Urban FantasyDry HumorDemonsFirst Person Narrator
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Nightfall

Stephen Leather

Private InvestigatorDemonsLondonUrban Fantasy
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Forever Odd

Dean Koontz · 416 pages

The follow-up novel to Odd Thomas, from worldwide bestselling author, Dean Koontz.Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears.Odd never asked to communicate with the dead – they sought him out. As the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he has a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it, and that’s why he has already won ove

Ghosts & HauntingsDry HumorDemonsFirst Person Narrator
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Ptolemy's Gate

Jonathan Stroud · 508 pages

Three years have passed since the magician Nathaniel helped prevent a cataclysmic attack on London. Now an established member of the British Government, he faces unprecedented problems: foreign wars are going badly; Britain's enemies are mounting attacks close to London; and rebellion is fomentingamong the commoners. Increasingly imperious and distracted, Nathaniel is treating Bartimaeus worse tha

LondonDry HumorDemonsUrban Fantasy
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The Pale Dreamer

Samantha Shannon

LondonUrban FantasyGhosts & HauntingsFirst Person Narrator
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The Cuckoo's Calling

J.K. Rowling · 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

LondonDry HumorPrivate InvestigatorDark
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Dead Things

Stephen Blackmoore · 304 pages

Urban FantasyGhosts & HauntingsFirst Person NarratorDark
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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 InvestigatorFirst Person NarratorDry HumorSeries Starter
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The Rhesus Chart

Charles Stross · 376 pages

LondonUrban FantasyDry HumorFirst Person Narrator
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The Long Way Down

Craig Schaefer · 372 pages

Urban FantasyDemonsFirst Person NarratorDark
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Armageddon Bound

Tim Marquitz · 220 pages

Half-devil and miles from anything resembling heroic, perpetual underdog Frank “Triggaltheron” Trigg is the last man standing against Armageddon. As the favorite nephew of the Devil, Frank has led a troubled life, but he’d always had his uncle’s influence to fall back on. Now, with God and Lucifer coming to terms and leaving existence to fend for itself, his once exalted status of Anti-Christ-to-b

Urban FantasyDry HumorDemonsFirst Person Narrator
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Half the Blood of Brooklyn

Charlie Huston · 223 pages

"One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century."--Stephen King"Hard-boiled horror, pulp noir vampires, decaying urban souls-- you're gonna need a shower after this one. . . . [Huston] kicks down the door of horror."--Fangoria, on Already DeadThere's only so much room on the Island, only so much blood, and Manhattan's Vampyre Clans aren't interested in

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

Urban FantasyPrivate InvestigatorGhosts & HauntingsFirst Person Narrator
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London Falling

Paul Cornell · 416 pages

LondonUrban FantasyGhosts & HauntingsDark
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Magic Slays

Ilona Andrews · 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 FantasyPrivate InvestigatorDry HumorFirst Person Narrator
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The Dirty Streets of Heaven

Tad Williams · 464 pages

Urban FantasyDemonsFirst Person NarratorNoir

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