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The Outlaw Demon Wails

Kim Harrison · 464 pages

Cincinnati-based bounty hunter Rachel Morgan remains in shock following the unsolved murder of her boyfriend. Planning to solve the case, she accepts a special mission in the spiritual realm courtesy of Elf politician Trent Kalamack while master vampire Rynn Cormel makes his own demands on her.

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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 FantasyVampiresFae/FaeriesMagic System
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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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Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton · 368 pages

Urban FantasyVampiresPlot-DrivenMagic System
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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 FantasyVampiresFae/FaeriesPlot-Driven
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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.

Magic SystemUrban FantasyPlot-DrivenWitty Banter
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Spell Bound

Rachel Hawkins

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City of Fallen Angels

Cassandra Clare · 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

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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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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 & HauntingsPrivate InvestigatorUrban FantasyWitty Banter
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Shadowfever

Karen Marie Moning · 594 pages

Alina is dead and her sister Mac has returned to Ireland, the country that expelled them, to hunt her sister's murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, she descends into an epic battle between humans and Fae immortals as the Sinsar Dubh turns on her, and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Mac's journey will force her to face the t

Urban FantasyMagic SystemPlot-DrivenFae/Faeries
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At Grave's End

Jeaniene Frost · 342 pages

SOME THINGS WON'T STAY BURIED...AT GRAVE'S END It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield's life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she's successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat's worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers, her cover's finally been blown, placing her in terrible danger. As if

Urban FantasyVampiresWitty BanterPlot-Driven
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

Ghosts & HauntingsParanormalPlot-DrivenFirst Person Narrator
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The Indigo Spell

Richelle Mead

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch—a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But

VampiresMagic SystemUrban FantasyWitty Banter
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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 FantasyParanormalPlot-Driven
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Something from the Nightside

Simon R. Green · 230 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyPlot-DrivenDetective Fiction
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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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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 & HauntingsPlot-DrivenParanormalFirst Person Narrator
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Sandman Slim

Richard Kadrey · 416 pages

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero.Life sucks, and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles.Now Stark's back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to

Urban FantasyMagic SystemWitty BanterFast-Paced
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Some Girls Bite

Chloe Neill

First in a brand new series about a Chicago graduate students introduction into a society of vampires.Sure, the life of a graduate student wasnt exactly glamorous, but it was Merits. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsuckerand this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.Turns

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The Golem's Eye

Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages

In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.

Magic SystemPlot-DrivenWitty BanterFast-Paced
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Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy · 400 pages

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course). Oh yeah. And dead. Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's...well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out..."So you won't keep anything from me again? "He put his hand to his chest.

Magic SystemPlot-DrivenDetective ProtagonistWitty Banter
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Death Warmed Over

Kevin J. Anderson · 302 pages

Private InvestigatorUrban FantasyDetective FictionGhosts & Hauntings
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