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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
For Dirk Gently, private detective, a simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time traveller, and a devastating secret that threatens the future of humanity
Dirk Gently, alias Svlad Cjelli, is a holistic detective who investigations are based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, in this comic science fiction/mystery series.
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Death Warmed Over : Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.
by Kevin J. Anderson
Zombie P.I. Dan Chambeaux, along with his human partner and ghost girlfriend, tries to juggle his unnatural caseload, including a resurrected mummy who is suing the museum that put him on display, while trying to figure out who killed him.
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The Caves of Steel
by Isaac Asimov
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together.
This is the first in the Robot series and was followed by the Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn.
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The Sword-Edged Blonde
by Alex Bledsoe
A princess is missing, and her father, King Felix of Balaton, wants her back; when his wizards fail to find her, King Felix hires private investigator and sword-for-hire Eddie LaCrosse. Along the way, LaCrosse stumbles upon another royal family in distress—a murdered heir and a queen suspected of the crime—and the solution lies in a past that Eddie would rather forget.
Bledsoe's debut novel begins a fantasy detective series featuring a wisecracking, noble-hearted hero and a world of moon priestesses, cheap spells, and real monsters, some in human form.
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Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
As Chicago's only practicing, professional wizard, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is used to being mocked. However, when the Special Investigations Division of CPD encounters an impossible case, Harry is the one they call. No sooner has the destitute Harry agreed to meet a new client looking for her missing husband than Lieutenant Karrin Murphy also phones. Against the laws of men and wizards, someone is using thaumaturgical magic to kill. One of the first victims was a henchman for Gentleman Johnny Marcone, bringing the mafia into the case. Following Harry's investigations reveals a world built behind the normal reality of Chicago and full of fairies, vampires, wardens, and demons.
The 15th Dresden file is Skin Game in which Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.
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Event : A Novel
by David L. Golemon
The Event Group is the most secret organization in the United States, comprised of the nation's most brilliant individuals in the branches of science, philosophy, and the military. They are dedicated to uncovering the hidden truths behind the myths and legends propagated throughout world history—from underground agencies and conspiracy theories to extraterrestrial life and UFOs.
This time, the Group faces an enemy of remarkable strength and power. In order to ensure that history's errors never be repeated, the Group must team up with an unlikely ally to identify and stop a deadly presence known only as the Destroyer of Worlds.
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A Kiss of Shadows
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Meredith, a runaway Elven princess posing as a human private detective with a specialty in supernatural crime, is confronted by a dangerous new adversary, Doyle, the chief bodyguard and assassin of Meredith's aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, as Meredith becomes caught up in one of her dreaded aunt's evil schemes.
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The Breach
by Patrick Lee
When he stumbles upon a crashed 747 passenger jet filled with dead passengers, including the wife of the president of the United States, ex-con, ex-cop Travis Chase is plunged into a battle for the future that revolves around an incredible artifact that could be humankind's final hope.
Travis, who with Paige Campbell, a scientist with Tangent, seek to uncover and then confront "The Breach" and the alien entities behind it in this science fiction-techno-thriller series.
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Naked in Death
by J. D. Robb
Eve Dallas, a New York police lieutenant, is in over her head when she breaks the rules and falls in love with a suspect in her most recent case. Naked in Death is the first in this long running mystery science fiction series.
In Concealed in Death (#38 in the series published in 2014), Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband begins the demolition of a long abandoned building. When the dust clears, they find twelve skeletons wrapped in plastic. Summonded, Eve discovers that the place once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers back in the mid-2040s and eventually tracks down the people who ran it and why the teens were murdered.
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The Last Policeman
by Ben H. Winters
When the Earth is doomed by an imminent asteroid collision, homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.
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