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Skin Game by Jim Butcher
A professional wizard agrees to pull off the perfect heist—against a vault no one sane would touch. Packed with sharp humor, deadly bargains, and double-crosses, Skin Game is urban fantasy at full sprint, delivering the most dangerous score of the Dresden Files yet.
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... a ruthless, twisty magical heist full of shifting alliances and double-crosses?
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
If the Hades vault job, Harry’s uneasy crew-up with Nicodemus and the Denarians, and the knife-edge betrayals (right down to team members getting sacrificed) were your catnip, you’ll devour the capers in The Lies of Locke Lamora. The Gentleman Bastards pull cons within cons, and the twists hit with the same whiplash energy as the museum infiltration and vault sequence in Skin Game—with stakes and consequences that bite.
... a modern-city-meets-magic investigation where cops tackle supernatural crime with dry wit?
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
You liked how Harry navigates Chicago’s hidden supernatural underbelly while juggling Accords politics and real-world procedure during the Hades job. In Rivers of London, rookie constable Peter Grant is drafted into a tiny magical branch of the Met and digs into hauntings and river-god feuds with the same grounded, boots-on-the-pavement feel you get when Harry and Murphy coordinate stakeouts, interviews, and evidence in Skin Game.
... quippy, irreverent banter that cracks jokes even when the claws and spells come out?
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
If Harry’s wisecracks while wrangling Binder’s clay goons, sniping at Nicodemus, and trading gallows humor with Murphy kept you grinning through the chaos, Hounded will hit the same spot. Atticus O’Sullivan narrates with the same cheeky spark—riffing on pop culture mid–throwdown—while navigating gods, witches, and assassins with a voice as funny and fast as Harry’s in Skin Game.
... a protagonist stuck making ethically gray calls to stop apocalyptic horrors under ruthless bosses?
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
Harry’s Winter Knight obligations and his devil’s bargains with Nicodemus and Mab force him into lines he’d rather not cross—especially during the vault caper and its aftermath. In The Atrocity Archives, Bob Howard operates in a secret British agency where saving the world from eldritch threats means soul-scorching compromises and paperwork—mirroring the morally messy choices Harry wrestles with in Skin Game.
... an intimate, wry first-person voice that grounds high-stakes supernatural conflicts?
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
If Harry’s close-up, no-filter narration—cracking jokes through pain, clocking every bad feeling during the Hades run, and caring fiercely about allies like Murphy, Michael, and Anna Valmont—pulled you in, Mercy Thompson’s voice will feel like home. Moon Called delivers that same you-are-there immediacy as Mercy navigates werewolf politics and deadly turf wars with the kind of personal stakes and grit that drive Skin Game.
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