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Ben Aaronovitch · 2011 · UK · fantasy · mystery
Book 2 of 10 in Rivers of London
★ 4.08 Goodreads · 76,754 ratings

A jazz-loving London cop discovers that supernatural crimes in Soho are connected to something his mentor fought decades ago.

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12 books for readers of Moon Over Soho

Storm Front

Jim Butcher · 2000 · US 97% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 393,021 ratings
Book 1 of 17 in The Dresden Files
shares: urban fantasy, noir, detective · story-driven, easy read

Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, scrapes by as a private investigator until the police call him in on a gruesome double murder done with black magic, and the council of wizards already suspects him.

Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K. Hamilton · 1993 · US 96% match ★ 4.02 Goodreads · 155,226 ratings
Book 1 of 30 in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
shares: urban fantasy, vampire, supernatural · story-driven, easy read

In a St. Louis where vampires have legal rights, Anita Blake raises the dead for a living and executes rogue vampires for the courts, until the city's vampire master forces her to hunt the killer who is murdering vampires.

Moon Called

Patricia Briggs · 2006 · US 95% match ★ 4.14 Goodreads · 222,391 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in Mercy Thompson
shares: urban fantasy, vampire, supernatural · story-driven, easy read

Mercedes Thompson, a Volkswagen mechanic in Washington's Tri-Cities who can turn into a coyote, takes in a young werewolf on the run, and his trouble pulls her into the politics of the local pack, led by her alpha neighbour, Adam Hauptman.

Dead Witch Walking

Kim Harrison · 2004 · US 95% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 130,636 ratings
Book 1 of 19 in The Hollows
shares: urban fantasy, vampire, witty · story-driven, easy read

Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter for Cincinnati's Inderland Security, quits to go independent, and her old employer puts a price on her head, leaving her to survive with a living vampire and a foul-mouthed pixy as partners.

The Rook

Daniel O'Malley · 2012 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.07 Hardcover · 437 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Checquy Files
shares: supernatural, London, witty, urban fantasy · story-driven, easy read

A woman wakes in a London park surrounded by dead men in latex gloves, with no memory and a letter in her pocket from her body's previous owner, Myfanwy Thomas, a senior officer of the Checquy, Britain's secret supernatural service.

Rosemary and Rue

Seanan McGuire · 2009 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 40,914 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, noir, detective · speculative, story-driven

October Daye, a changeling private investigator in San Francisco who lost fourteen years transformed into a fish, is forced back into the world of Faerie when a countess is murdered.

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman · 1996 · UK 94% match ★ 4.11 Hardcover · 1,828 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, London · easy read, story-driven

Richard Mayhew, an ordinary young Londoner, helps an injured girl he finds on the pavement and falls out of his own life into London Below, a dark, magical city of people who slipped through the cracks.

Resurrection Men

Ian Rankin · 2002 · UK 94% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 15,222 ratings
Book 13 of 24 in Inspector Rebus
shares: procedural, noir, police, detective · easy read, low-key

John Rebus, sent back to police college after throwing a mug of tea at his boss, joins a team of washed-up detectives, and is secretly told to spy on them.

Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · 2010 · US 93% match ★ 4.30 Goodreads · 891,637 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Infernal Devices
shares: urban fantasy, supernatural, London · story-driven, easy read

In 1878 Tessa Gray crosses from New York to London to find her brother, is held by the Dark Sisters, who show her that she can change into other people, and is rescued by the Shadowhunters of the London Institute.

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Carrie Vaughn · 2005 · US 93% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 34,116 ratings
shares: urban fantasy, supernatural, witty · easy read, speculative

Kitty Norville, a werewolf at the bottom of her Denver pack, hosts a late-night radio show and starts taking calls from vampires, werewolves and witches on air.

Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King · 2014 · US 93% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 394,288 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney
shares: police, detective · story-driven, easy read

Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.

The City & the City

China Miéville · 2009 · UK 93% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 83,252 ratings
shares: procedural, noir, police, detective · low-key, intimate

A detective investigates a murder in a city where two distinct populations share the same streets but are forbidden from seeing each other.