Bitter Gold Hearts

Rating:
Summary: bitter, but good
Review: I've liked all the Garrett novels, but this is my favorite. It's got everything a good, hardboiled detective novel should without succumbing to boilerplate and an ending as bitter as day-old coffee. Cook is always a writer worth reading, but here he goes beyond himself.

Rating:
Summary: bitter, but good
Review: I've liked all the Garrett novels, but this is my favorite. It's got everything a good, hardboiled detective novel should without succumbing to boilerplate and an ending as bitter as day-old coffee. Cook is always a writer worth reading, but here he goes beyond himself.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent: a Must Read!
Review: Laughs and Jokes, along with intriquing characters makes this a wonderful series. I hope it comes back in print. The book follows the adventures of Garrett, a private eye, in a world that has elves, dark elves, Trolls, and Centuars. I read and re-read this series for enjoyment.

Rating:
Summary: Great Book, Great Series!!
Review: Second, as I recall, in the "Garrett" series of cross-genre mystery/fantasy novels "Bitter Gold Hearts" gives us a hard-bitten, independent, and highly ethical private eye in the mold of Philip Marlowe...in a world of Wizards, Giants, Trolls, Grolls (A breed between Trolls, Giants, and the Thing That Dares Not Speak), and other traditional fantasy staples thrown together in the medieval equivalent of '40's Los Angeles.

Far from the clash you would expect, in Cook's capable hands over a series of six novels and counting, the Sword'n'Sorcery and "Hard-bitten Detective" complement and renew each other, making "everything old, new again". Highly reccomended.