If you liked riding shotgun with Joe Pitt as he cuts deals with the Coalition, squeezes information out of the Society, and wades into Enclave territory—all while cracking razor-edged jokes—you’ll vibe with James Stark. In Sandman Slim, Stark claws his way back from Hell to settle scores in a Los Angeles packed with magicians, demons, and back‑alley fixers. The voice is just as venomously funny and ruthless as Joe’s, and the street‑level power plays feel like a West Coast mirror to Joe’s turf wars in Manhattan.

You enjoyed following Joe as he traces the "zombie"-like contagion through rival vampire turf, cutting bargains with the Coalition and dodging zealots from the Enclave. Felix Castor’s first case hits the same nerve: in The Devil You Know, a freelance exorcist takes a seemingly simple gig that spirals into a conspiracy among London’s undead and the people who exploit them. Like Joe’s hunt, the investigation peels back layers of supernatural politics and forces a fixer to choose between bad options.

If Joe Pitt’s blunt, first-person narration—deadpan about the Vyrus, dryly funny even when he’s bleeding in a stairwell, and unsentimental about favors owed to the Coalition—hooked you, Harry Dresden’s voice will, too. In Storm Front, Chicago’s resident wizard-PI narrates a spiraling case of black magic with the same hardboiled rhythm and gallows humor Joe uses when he’s shaking down leads and trying to keep Evie safe.

Joe’s New York is all territory maps and uneasy truces—the Coalition’s influence here, the Enclave’s taboo there—embedded in a very real city. Rivers of London taps that same feel: probationary constable Peter Grant gets pulled into a secret branch of the Met, policing river spirits, ghosts, and capricious powers while navigating rivalries that feel as tense as Joe’s negotiations in Chinatown or the Lower East Side.

If Joe’s dry, often vicious wit kept you grinning through bone-splinter fights and tense sit-downs with the Coalition, you’ll appreciate Carlos Delacruz. In Half-Resurrection Blues, a not-quite-dead fixer in Brooklyn takes on cross-borough occult threats with the same mix of banter and brutality Joe brings when he’s cracking heads for answers about the contagion and trying not to torch his personal life with Evie.