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series3 books2001
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Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels follow two working-class East Texas friends, Hap, a straight white ex-activist, and Leonard, a gay Black Vietnam veteran, who keep getting pulled from odd jobs into local crime they can't leave alone, beginning with Savage Season. The long-running series mixes hardboiled crime plotting with the two leads' running banter and loyalty to each other. Other contributors have added short pieces to the same continuity over the years.
- A Serpent Uncoiled
Simon Spurrierstandalone novel2011
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Working as an enforcer in London's criminal underworld brought Dan Shaper to the edge of a breakdown. Now he's a private investigator, kept perilously afloat by a growing cocktail of drugs. He needs to straighten up and rebuild his life, but instead he gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job offer from Mr. George Glass. The elderly eccentric claims to be a New Age Messiah, but now needs a savior of his own: he's been marked for murder. Adrift amidst liars and thugs, Shaper must push his capsizing mind to its limits, as he is stalked not only by a unique and terrifying killer, but by the ghosts of his own brutal past.
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Michael Chabonstandalone novel2007
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In an alternate present where Jewish refugees settled Alaska during World War II rather than Israel, homicide detective Meyer Landsman -- divorced, drinking, living in a run-down hotel -- catches a case in his own building: a former chess prodigy, shot dead beside an unfinished game. Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko Shemets learn the dead man was more than he seemed, connected to a messianic movement within Sitka's Orthodox community, just as the settlement faces a countdown of its own -- its status as a federal district about to expire, everyone's future up for grabs. Michael Chabon's Hugo- and Nebula-winning noir, told as hardboiled alternate history.
- Joe Pitt Casebooks
series5 books2005
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- Nightside
series23 books2003
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Nightside follows John Taylor, a down-at-heel private investigator with the dangerous gift of finding anything, who takes cases inside the Nightside - a hidden, perpetually dark district of London where gods, monsters, and magic operate outside the reach of ordinary law. Simon R. Green's noir fantasy series, beginning with Something from the Nightside, follows Taylor deeper into the district's politics and his own mysterious origins across fourteen novels.
- Dinosaur Mafia
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- Anita Blake
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- The Last Hot Time
John M. Fordstandalone novel2000
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From the front flap: When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of the City, he expects his life to change. He just can't guess who much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, who gives Danny a job, a home, and a new identity. The City is a different world from the one Danny (now called Doc) knew, and literally so. The long-vanished lands of the Elves have again opened doors into our reality. Humans cannot cross these thresholds, but the Elves can. Mr. Patrise is a power in the Levee, the shadowy, lawless region between the two worlds, where elf and human gangsters skirmish with sorcery and submachine guns and where anything can be sold, smuggled, or stolen. But the nature of that power--over his people, the City, and the unpredictable new forces of magic--is a mystery. The more Doc learns about the City and his responsibilities in it, the more he wonders if he's in over his head...
