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Detective Noir Fantasy

Review: Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark by Stephanie K. Smith

May 22, 2024 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Tourmaline Larou lives an idyllic life of learning by day and partying by night. An aspiring poet, her future promises nothing less than brilliance. Then, Vignette Stonemoss walks through the door, and Tourmaline’s world is upended. As she struggles to understand the effect this stranger has on her, Tourmaline and her fellow fae face […]

Filed Under: Action & Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Military Fantasy, Reviews, Steampunk Tagged With: #AmazonOriginal, #Audible, #AudibleOriginal, #CarnivalRow, #KarlaCrome, #OrlandoBloom, #StephanieKSmith, #TangleintheDark

Interview with Douglas Lumsden

February 25, 2024 by Charlie Cavendish 1 Comment

Well, the first thing I would do is jam the buttons so that the elevator would stop and I’d have a captive audience, because I like to take my time with my pitches. But if I was in a hurry, I might say something like: A cynical detective finds mystery, murder, and dark magic in […]

Filed Under: Author Chat, Book Spotlight, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Interview Tagged With: Fantasy, Self Published

Review: Blackcap (Rainfallen #0.5) by Benjamin Aeveryn

December 30, 2023 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Detective noir meets The Witcher in a post-apocalyptic city reminiscent of Victorian London. New London is protected by a stone shelter to keep out the rainwights–the monsters that tore down civilization. It is a dark city, choked with soot and crime. On these perpetually lamplit streets, Kade Blackcap was once a famous detective. Overburdened […]

Filed Under: Dark Fantasy, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: #BenjaminAeveryn, #Blackcap, #Rainfallen

Review: Death of a Christmas Tree Salesman (Sam Shovel #1) by Patricia Meredith

December 29, 2023 by C. J. Daley (CJDsCurrentRead) Leave a Comment

Synopsis Sam Shovel only comes to life for twelve days a year at Christmastime, and this year, he’s in time to solve a murder mystery at the North Pole. O. Tannenbaum—the world’s largest supplier of Christmas trees—has been murdered, and although Nick and Nora Claus are too busy to solve the mystery, Sam has enough […]

Filed Under: Detective Noir Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Mystery, Mythology, Reviews Tagged With: #DeathofaChristmasTreeSalesman, #PatriciaMeredith

Review: One Life Left (Nick Holleran Series #3) by David Green

November 25, 2023 by Alan Behan Leave a Comment

Synopsis ONE LIFE LEFT Nick Holleran’s life in Hell is about to get a whole lot worse. Failing to learn from his previous escapades, Haven’s one and only Paranormal Detective stumbles through life, and makes deadly enemies in all the wrong places. Implicated in a growing number of murders, Nick scrambles to clear his name […]

Filed Under: Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Paranormal Fantasy, Reviews, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy Books, Self Published

Review: A Night Owl Slips Into A Diner by Douglas Lumsden

October 3, 2023 by Charlie Cavendish Leave a Comment

Synopsis A routine case of industrial espionage pitches hardboiled P.I. Alexander Southerland headlong into a maelstrom of shadowy political intrigue and deadly supernatural mayhem—not to mention some malevolent owls and the mysterious ‘boy who talks backwards’! After his exposure of a white-collar thief has harrowing consequences, a guilt-ridden and disconsolate Southerland roams the mean streets […]

Filed Under: Detective Noir Fantasy, Reviews, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Douglas Lumsden

Book Tour and Review: A Talon’s Wrath (Riftborn, 3) by Steve McHugh

June 26, 2023 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis Lucas Rurik faces unwanted celebrity, ancient enemies, and dangerous zealots in a thrilling urban-fantasy noir from the author of the Hellequin Chronicles. Centuries of life experience inside and outside the Rift couldn’t prepare former Raven Guild member and riftborn detective Lucas Rurik for his latest set of challenges. First, when his capture of a […]

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Book Tour, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Reviews, Self Published, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: a talons wrath, Detective, Fantasy, Mystery, Noir, riftborn, series, Sherlock Holmes, Steve McHugh, talons wrath, Wrath

Book Tour & Review: The Monsters We Feed by Thomas Howard Riley

May 8, 2023 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis The morning before he found the dead body, Jathan Algevin thought he had his whole life just the way he wanted it.   He knows his city inside and out, and doesn’t bother carrying a sword, trusting his wits and his fists well enough to get by, hustling extra coin by ratting out loathsome magi […]

Filed Under: Book Tour, Dark Fantasy, Detective Noir Fantasy, Erotic Fantasy, Fantasy, Grimdark, Reviews, Self Published, Thriller, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Book Review, Dark, Detective, detective noir, Fantasy, Grimdark, lust, Magic, Mystery, Noir, noir fantasy, Self Published, sex, The Monsters We Feed, Thomas Howard Riley, Thriller

Book Tour and Review: Blessed Odds (Riftborn, Book 2) by Steve McHugh

March 4, 2023 by Neil Williams 1 Comment

Synopsis In the sequel to The Last Raven, Lucas Rurik confronts a cult determined to remake the world—no matter the cost—in this urban fantasy noir from the author of the Hellequin Chronicles. Lucas Rurik is no stranger to navigating the tricky territory between humans and those touched by the rift. After all, as the last […]

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Book Tour, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery, Reviews, Self Published, Sword and Sorcery, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: blessed odds, Book Review, Books, Detective, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, Fantasy Series, mutants, Noir, riftborn, Self Published, series, Steve McHugh

Book Review & Tour: The Last Raven (Riftborn, Book 1) by Steve McHugh

November 21, 2022 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis Lucas is a riftborn fighter bent on vengeance in this thrilling urban fantasy/detective noir series from the bestselling author of the Hellequin Chronicles. The peace between the rift and humanity has always been tenuous. It’s up to the Guilds to protect it, removing whomever—or whatever—poses a threat, whether human or rift-fused. Lucas Rurik used […]

Filed Under: Action Fantasy, Book Tour, Detective Noir Fantasy, Fantasy, Mystery, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Self Published, Urban Fantasy Tagged With: Detective, Fantasy, Indie, Noir, riftborn, Self Pub, Self Published, Steve McHugh, The Last Raven

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