Sweet Silver Blues

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Summary: A detective in a city of elves, dwarves and stormwardens
Review: Garrett is an ex marine turned detective living in the city of Tunfaire. He hates legwork, actually he hates any kind of work. His nearest friend is Morley Dotes, a half elf living in the dark side of the city. Garrett describes him as a bonebreaker and a lifetaker. Sweet Silver Blues is a bittersweet story of vampires, lost love, friendship and the war in the Cantard. If you even like fantasy you'll love this city.

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Summary: One of the best fantasy/mystery novels.
Review: Glenn Cook is probably the best overlooked author. His other fantasy novels of the Black Company are favorites of mine, as well as this wry witty detective. Garrett tries to be a hard boiled detective, but he is a romantic at heart and always leaps to aid a damsel in distress before looking. He is a human detective in the fantasy setting of Tunfaire. He is aided in his fight by his two friends, the slick woman's man Morley Dotes and the large mountain that moves like a man Saucerhead Tharpe and then there's always the Dead Man.

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Summary: Philip Marlowe meets Lord of the Rings
Review: Most fantasy novels are not so deeply embedded in the mystery genre as this one is. Glen Cook has written a fine homage to the gritty detective novels of the 40s and 50s and placed it in a fantasy world with more oddball and interesting characters than you can shake a stick at. And, this includes the ever present femme fatale from the detective era. A couple of them in this case.
While the fantasy part of the book seems to pull a couple of fixes out of it's hat when all seems lost, the book is so well written that I can't really quibble with it. It is a fantasy after all.
If you like fantasy And detectives novels then you are in for quite an enjoyable ride. This book combines them both in a well structured plot line and Glen Cook has an easy reading style that will carry you through this book to the ultimate double-cross at the end. What do you expect? It is a detective novel after all.

Rating:
Summary: Philip Marlowe meets Lord of the Rings
Review: Most fantasy novels are not so deeply embedded in the mystery genre as this one is. Glen Cook has written a fine homage to the gritty detective novels of the 40s and 50s and placed it in a fantasy world with more oddball and interesting characters than you can shake a stick at. And, this includes the ever present femme fatale from the detective era. A couple of them in this case.
While the fantasy part of the book seems to pull a couple of fixes out of it's hat when all seems lost, the book is so well written that I can't really quibble with it. It is a fantasy after all.
If you like fantasy And detectives novels then you are in for quite an enjoyable ride. This book combines them both in a well structured plot line and Glen Cook has an easy reading style that will carry you through this book to the ultimate double-cross at the end. What do you expect? It is a detective novel after all.