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Private investigator Garrett, hero of the Cantard Wars, reluctantly agrees to return to the perilous Cantard mining country in search of a missing heiress. His companions include a renegade half-elf, a trio of frog-like ''grolls,'' and two sharp-tongued women with their own interest in the quest's successor failure.

While the storm warden's away .. her children will pay -- especially when someone's kidnapped that magical and merciless personage's son and heir. And when kidnapping's the game, Garrett's the name of the hardboiled human detective who's made nabbing the 'nappers his specialty. But this time around Garrett may have gotten into the middle of something that's too hot for him and his elvish allies to handle, and even the bewitching beauty of a half-elf, the seductive sultriness of a lady willing to prove she's wholly human, and the promise of a fortune in gold may not prove compensation enough for tackling both a host of ogres and assassins .. and some of the most menacing masters ever to seize power in this wildly enchanted land.

She was tall, blonde, and offering P.I. Garrett an irresistible fee to take a case that seemed open and shut. But in a town of elves and humans, thugs and swindlers, Garrett had learned to take a long, hard look before saying yes...

A veteran of the Cantard War calls in a debt and hires private investigator Garrett to discover a poisoner in the household of a retired general of the Fleet Marines. A host of walking dead, a mysterious woman in white, and a ramshackle estate on the outskirts of the city of TunFaire lend a gothic feel to the latest fantasy/mystery in a series that includes Sweet Silver Blues, Bitter Gold Hearts, and Cold Copper Tears . Recommended for fantasy collections

Everyone wants to find it - a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. It's the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master - and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world.

Blood-Soaked Blades had been taking their toll among the luscious lovelies in Garrett's home city of TunFaire. And though Garrett could be as civic-minded as the next guy- unless the next guy was captain Block of the Watch- the private eye wasn't sure he really wanted to take on a serial killer psycho who did too good a carving job and never left any of the blood behind.

When the former mistress of the now-defunct king hires Garrett to find her missing teenaged daughter, the human detective gets more than he bargained for in a world full of suspects, sex, and corpses.

When real estate becomes a scant resource in TunFaire, the newly arrived gods of the world hold a contest that will award the last available temple to whomever can find its key, and atheist P.I. Garrett is hired by two rival pantheons

Garrett, a wiseguy private investigator who speaks loudly and carries a big stick, is pulled into a monster power play when a gang of human rightists starts trying to shake down his non-human employer. Backed by a circle of friends no one would wish on their worst enemy, Garrett is caught in a conspiracy of hate that pits man against everybody else. The ninth book in Cook's popular Garrett P.I. novels.

Private Investigator Garrett has agreed to play bodyguard for a kid who is being threatened by creatures that defy description. But before Garrett can make heads or tails of the story, the kid is abducted-and the chase begins.

In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.

Garrett's newest visitors are a pack of lovelies led by his main squeeze Tinnie Tate and her friend, Alyx Weider, the spoiled daughter of the largest brewer in town. Her father needs Garrett'shelp-his workers are being attacked by everything from giant insects to ghosts. Garrett takes the case. After all, working for the Weiders means free beer. But it also means serious danger.

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Praise for the Garrett, P.I., Novels

"A wild science fiction mystery that never slows down for a moment."

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Midwest Book Review

"Garrett, private detective, returns after too long an absence. . . . Cook makes this blending of fantasy with hard-boiled-detective story seem easy, which it isn't, and manages to balance the requirements of both genres superbly."

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Chronicle

"Cook brings a dose of gritty realism to fantasy."

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Library Journal

"Eminently satisfying."

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