Sweet Silver Blues (Garrett Files)

311 pages

English language

Published May 1, 1990 by Roc.

ISBN:
978-0-451-45070-8
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5 stars

This was so much fun. So, I know (and love) Glen Cook from the Black Company. This is the first time I've ventured out of his dark and gritty stuff and it is so much better. This was such an amazing mix of noir detective story and fantasy tropes that I think I smiled through the entire thing and read it in 2 sittings.

The main character is a PI who takes a simple (at first) job from a bunch of gnomes to go and track down a guy's old flame and get her to appear before the family to either accept the bloke's inheritance or sign off on giving it away.

This turns into a traipse across a warzone, jolly troll hirelings, a vegetarian half-elf killer for hire, a long dead and rotting corpse wiseman, two gnomish femme-fetales, suger high garden fae, centaurs, vampires, city clerks (the most difficult …

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