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Author
Series
Dresden files volume 15
Language
English
Description
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help hated enemy Nicodemus Archleone break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of planet Ileri's vote to join the Commonwealth, a government minister is assassinated. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join forces with police chief Toiwa to investigate--and they discover clues to a threat humanity thought they had escaped.
Author
Series
Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself--a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly...
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 11
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The stories of three women--Eve Starkey, the formidable head of Bigge Corporation; Wendy Deere, an unauthorized supernatural investigator; and Mary Macandless, a kidnapper on assignment--become intertwined, causing world-bending results.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Drake, Investigator for Hire, doesn't like working for the Nobility, and doesn't prefer to take jobs from strange men who accost him in alleyways. A combination of hired muscle and ready silver have a way of changing a man's mind. A lord has been killed, his body found covered in bite marks. Even worse, the late lord's will is missing, and not everyone wants Drake to find it. Solving the case might plunge Drake into deeper danger.
Author
Series
Bannon and Clare volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Emma Bannon, Sorceress Prime in service to Queen Victrix, has a mission: to find the doctor who has created a powerful new weapon. Her friend, the mentath Archibald Clare, is only too happy to help. Unfortunately, their quarry is a fanatic, and his poisonous discovery is just as dangerous to Britannia as to Her enemies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Akers takes a Manhattan that many readers will be familiar with and twists it into something darkly magical and incredibly compelling. In the latest sequel to the critically acclaimed Jazz Age fantasy series, Gilda Carr, detective of tiny mysteries, finds that on the New York waterfront, there is nothing more deadly than the past"--
Author
Series
Electric empire volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Crime scene physician Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Henry, tries to balance her newfound fame with the dangerous secret of her diabolical other self, Lizzie Hyde, while investigating a bizarre crime with the mercurial Captain Remy Lafayette.
11) Buffalo soldier
Author
Publisher
TOR/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Having stumbled onto a plot within his homeland of Jamaica, former espionage agent, Desmond Coke, finds himself caught between warring religious and political factions, all vying for control of a mysterious boy named Lij Tafari. Wanting the boy to have a chance to live a free life, Desmond assumes responsibility for him and they flee. But a dogged enemy agent remains ever on their heels, desperate to obtain the secrets held within Lij for her employer...
12) Dead space
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer...
Author
Series
Electric empire volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Magic, mystery, and romance mix in this edgy retelling of the classic The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll is the daughter of the infamous Henry. In an electric-powered Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with inventive new technological gadgets. Now, a new killer is splattering London with blood, drugging beautiful women and slicing off their limbs. Catching "the Chopper"...
Author
Series
John Nyquist novels volume 3
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 1959, private eye John Nyquist arrives in the village of Hoxley-on-the-Hale with only a package of cryptic photographs, and the frail hope of finding an answer to a question he's been asking since his childhood. But the villagers offer little help, as each day brings a twisted new rule in the name of a different Saint that they, and Nyquist, must follow. And there are whispers of the return of the Tolly Man, an avatar of chaos in...
15) The raven spell
Author
Series
Conspiracy of magic volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a master wizard and a curious pocket watch that doesn't seem to tell time. To retrieve his lost memories, Ian demands answers from Edwina and Mary Blackwood, sister witches with a murky past. But as their secret is slowly unveiled,...
Author
Series
Mick Oberon novels volume 3
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Mick Oberon may look like just another 1930s private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, hes got pointy ears and hes packing a wand. Mick is suffering from bad luck, and when luck is your chief magical weapon, that means things are pretty dire. Hunting for the origin of his bad mojo, Mick finds himself on the trail of a missing mummy, and being trailed by some of the most dangerous mobsters in Chicago. As well as once again...
Author
Publisher
Tiny Fox Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Kidnapping. Enslavement. Murder. Those are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions some will take to protect their interests in æther-oil, the coveted substance that fuels the city of Huile. As both veteran and private investigator, Marcel Talwar knows this firsthand, and he likes to think he'd never participate in such things. However, that naïve idea comes to a crashing end when he takes on a new case that quickly shatters his worldview....
Author
Publisher
BHC Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bacardi and Coke. Neat. Not the usual drink of choice for a mountain dwarf. Then again, Detective Sirgrus Blackmane is no ordinary dwarf-at least not since the Great War. Being a gumshoe during Prohibition might appear glamorous, with secret speakeasies, all-night cocktail parties, and scantily clad women displaying their knees, but crime and conspiracy lurk beneath the city's shining illusion. When the human half of the Mason and Blackmane Detective...
Author
Publisher
GCP, Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, after the internet grinds to a halt amid a wave of cyber-attacks, a company named Zodiac steps in to replace it with an evolved, augmented-reality version called The Grid. Harrigan, a hard-drinking private detective living as off-Grid as possible, is about to be evicted from his apartment when a stranger shows up asking for his help in finding Anna, an escort who he claims he's desperately in love with. Turns out that through...
Author
Series
Fetch Phillips volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ex-soldier-turned-private investigator Fetch Phillips takes on new cases, including the murder of a businessman, while avoiding those who believe he can restore magic to their world."--Provided by publisher.
Cover a Gnome with a crossbow while he does a dodgy deal? Sure. Find out who killed Lance Niles, the big-shot businessman who just arrived in Sunder City? Fetch Phillips will give it shot. What he doesn't do, because it's impossible, is search...
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