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series9 books2007

Urban fantasy, tense in tone, set in contemporary and big city.

“Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset - a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow - seeking answers to whom or what she really is... and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Scent of Shadows →

The Great CitiesSeries

series3 books2016

Fantasy.

“N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities duology imagines that great cities can awaken as living, sentient avatars defending themselves against extradimensional threats.”
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Start with The City We Became →

The Dresden FilesSeries

series56 books2000

About wizards.

“The novels are narrated from the first-person perspective of Harry Dresden, a private detective and wizard, as he investigates supernatural disturbances in contemporary Chicago.”
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Start with Welcome to the Jungle →

Zoo CityNovel

Lauren Beukesstandalone novel2010

Science fiction and mystery & detective, set in africa.

Cal LeandrosSeries

series13 books2006

Urban fantasy, tense and dark in tone, set in contemporary and big city.

“There's a troll under the Brooklyn Bridge, a boggle in Central Park, and a beautiful vampire in a penthouse on the Upper East Side-and that's only the beginning.”
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Start with Nightlife →

The Curse WorkersSeries

series3 books2010

Fantasy, about family secrets and curses.

“Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families.”
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Start with White Cat →

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