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series32 books2011

Mystery & detective, mysterious in tone, about murder investigation, set in big city.

“The author Ben Aaronovitch has subsequently written nine books in the Peter Grant Series, plus accompanying novellas, short stories, comics and graphic novels.”
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Start with Rivers of London →

The Thirteen HallowsNovel

Michael Scott & Colette Freedmanstandalone novel2011

Fantasy, about magical artifacts.

London BelowSeries

series5 books1996

Fantasy, about transported to another world, set in big city and underground & caves.

“Most notable is the appearance of the Floating Market at Harrods rather than under Battersea power station.”
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Start with Neverwhere →

The Dark Is RisingSeries

series5 books1965

Fantasy and mythic fantasy.

“The first book in the series, Over Sea, Under Stone, was originally conceived as a stand-alone novel, and the sequence gets its name from the second novel in the series, The Dark Is Rising.”
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Start with Over Sea, Under Stone →

The Mortal InstrumentsUniverse

universe70 books2007

Fantasy.

“There is a world laid over your own like a second skin, and you have been trained since birth not to see it.”
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Start with City of Bones →

includes The Eldest Curses, The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours, Magnus Bane, The Infernal Devices, Ghosts of the Shadow Market, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

The Left-Handed Booksellers of LondonSeries

series2 books2020

Mysterious in tone, about books and reading, set in big city.

“Garth Nix's The Left-Handed Booksellers of London is set in a slightly alternate 1983 London, where Susan Arkshaw searches for the father she's never met.”
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Start with The Left-Handed Booksellers of London →

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