"Meet a wisecracking grim reaper who moonlights as a PI, juggling ghosts, demons, and one dangerously alluring mystery she can’t ignore. Fast, flirty, and full of thrills, First Grave on the Right is urban fantasy with serious spark."
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If Charley’s quips with Cookie and her dead clients made you grin—even while she was juggling Reyes’s steamy dream drop-ins—you’ll love the wisecracking chaos of Harry Dresden. In Storm Front, Chicago’s only wizard-PI cracks jokes in the middle of murder scenes, smart-mouths mobsters and vampires alike, and scrambles through a case that escalates from a gig gone wrong to city-shaking magical mayhem. That same breezy, laugh-out-loud voice rides shotgun with high-stakes supernatural sleuthing.
If you loved how First Grave on the Right grounded grim-reaper hijinks in a very real Albuquerque—with Charley bouncing between crime scenes, coffee runs with Cookie, and spectral consultations—you’ll click with Cincinnati’s Hollows. Rachel Morgan hunts vamps, demons, and worse on city streets, balancing casework, roommate drama, and magical fallout the way Charley juggles Ubie’s investigations and her afterlife clientele.
If Charley’s up-close, confessional narration pulled you right into interrogations with the three murdered lawyers—and into those charged encounters with Reyes—Alex Craft’s first-person voice will feel like home. In Grave Witch, Alex raises shades to solve homicides, narrating with sharp, wry insight as she navigates morgues, crime scenes, and complicated supernatural entanglements, all with the same personal, chatty immediacy you enjoyed with Charley.
If Reyes’s dark allure and those simmering, not-quite-safe encounters had you hooked while Charley chased killers, you’ll be all in for Cat and Bones. Halfway to the Grave blends pulse-pounding hunts with a combustible partnership—banter, training, and trust forged under fire—delivering that same tension between solving the case and surrendering to a love that feels as perilous as the monsters they fight.
If you were glued to Charley piecing together the murdered lawyers’ conspiracy while coordinating with Ubie and sweet-talking ghosts, you’ll relish Peter Grant’s methodical, magical police work. In Rivers of London, a rookie cop learns wizardry on the job, interviews specters as witnesses, and pursues a serial enchantment with procedural grit—mirroring Charley’s blend of clue-chasing, supernatural legwork, and escalating stakes.
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