Street Magic, by Caitlin Kittredge ★★★★

[mithriltabby]

Kittredge (blackaire) gives us a fine heroine with Detective Inspector Pete Caldecott, who had one brush with the mystical world in her teens and ran the hell away... until it comes calling with a missing-children case she’s working for Scotland Yard. Her only source for solving it is the mage she met as a teenager, who is now a heroin junkie that she needs to straighten out until he’s useful again. The interplay between the characters is fun, and it gets to be quite the page-turner toward the end. If your jonesing for the next Dresden Files book is giving you the jitters, I recommend you pick this one up.

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Jonesing!

[baronlaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[artslave.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a fun one; will have to look it up.

I don't remember, did you ever look up our dear UCSB gamemaster's book, Clockwork Heart (http://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Heart-Dru-Pagliassotti/dp/0809572567)? It's a fun steampunkish mystery-adventure-romance. She's got a sequel off to the editor now, and another much darker novel in the final revisions stage, that she hopes to get published in the next year or so. (She's also looking for a literary agent if you or anyone on your friends list happen to have any connections of that variety.)

Would love to see one of your mini-reviews of the book!


Also, I believe you were the one who recommended Kage Baker to me -- if you haven't heard, she is seriously ill (http://tribes.tribe.net/renfairehistorysnobs/thread/c6091923-27e4-438c-ac8e-0e28d596b85d#402bb8f2-e567-471b-9fad-6ed5551c4f2e). :(

[mithriltabby]

I’ll throw that in my In stack...

Yeah, metastatic cancer is nasty stuff. I hope she manages to beat this one.