Tag: private investigator
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The Road to Lisdoonvarna
By Charles de Lint Place: Publisher & Year: Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001 Genre: Mystery, hard boiled crime fiction ISBN: 9781892284914 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: Ottawa, Canada Time period: mid 1980s Plot summary: Private investigator, Jake Swann, has a big heart, especially when it comes to his friends. When Jake discovers that…
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Nickel Plated
By Aric Davis Place: Publisher & Year: Las Vegas, NV: AmazonEncore, c2010 Genre: Mystery, hard boiled crime fiction, suspense ISBN: 9781935597322 Audience: Young adult Number of pages: 197 Setting: Grand Rapids, Michigan Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Nickel is a twelve year old child abuse survivor and foster child escapee. At the age of ten,…
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Death Masks
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2003 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal mystery, paranormal, vampire Series: The Dresden Files; 5 ISBN: 9780451459404 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 374 (378 including an excerpt from Blood Rites). Setting: Chicago, IL Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Harry wanted…
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Summer Knight
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2002 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 4 ISBN: 9780451458926 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 371 Setting: Chicago, IL & where it meets Faerie Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Harry Dresden has been feeling…
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Greywalker
By Kat Richardson Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, c2006, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal, vampire, mystery, suspense, thriller Series: Greywalker series; 1 ISBN: 9780451461322 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 352 Setting: Seattle, WA Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: Harper Blaine is a small time private investigator who…
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Fool Moon
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2001 Genre: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 2 ISBN: 9780451458124 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 342 Setting: Chicago, IL and outskirts (Chicagoland) Time period: Fall 2000 Plot summary: Work has been slow for Harry Dresden, the…
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Storm Front
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2000 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 1 ISBN: 9780451457813 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 322 Setting: Chicago, IL and outskirts (Chicagoland) Time period: 2000 Plot summary: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is “the only openly practicing…
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The Spellman Files
By Lisa Lutz Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Genre: Mystery Series: Izzy Spellman mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9781416532392 Intended audience: adult Number of pages: 358 Settings: Mainly San Francisco, CA but also Marin county and Reno, NV Time period: contemporary Plot summary: 28 year old Izzy Spellman comes from a family…
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A Lick of Frost: a novel
By Laurell K. Hamilton Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ballantine Books, 2007 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, horror, mystery, occult fiction, erotic fiction Series: Meredith Gentry series; 6 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 274 Setting: Los Angeles, CA and the Seelie Court Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: The…
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Mistral’s Kiss: a novel
By Laurell K. Hamilton Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ballantine Books, 2007 Genre: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, horror, mystery, occult fiction, erotic fiction Series: Meredith Gentry series; 5 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 326 – includes an excerpt from the next series novel A Lick of Frost. Mistral’s…
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