Fantasy Police

LAPD detective Cassandra Lee is known for her single-mindedness, and right now she's got only one goal: track down the Bonebreaker, the man who murdered her father. But her quest for justice is derailed when LA comes under attack. The Aztec Empire, a Central American group determined to take back the US territories that their Spanish ancestors once controlled, has led a mutant army into California.

Twenty years ago, the modern world collided with the world of Faerie, leaving behind its denizens in a world of cold iron. Unable to work in the modern world of steel, those of the Fallen have been forced into welfare, prostitution, or thievery.

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.

Wibble & Pplimz, the Crucible's most unusual private investigators, must set off from their office in Hub City to clear the name of a former client. Along the way, their investigation broadens from a simple accusation of theft to include a missing person, a potential murder, and a highly unusual gem.

Blend in. Stay hidden. Stay dark. In the darkest corners of Los Angeles, private investigator Neve Traxon guards a deadly secret—she's a vampire, hiding in plain sight, navigating a treacherous path between two worlds. When a chance encounter leads her to save the life of a brutal serial killer, the lines blur between predator and prey. In the race to prevent more bloodshed, Neve teams up with the relentless Detective Marek Kaidan. As they hunt for the murderer she unleashed upon the city, they uncover a society of vampires known as the Infinity faction, harboring secrets that could ...

Night belongs to vampires, but dawn ignites war. Neve Traxon and her vigilante team of vampires race against time to stop the merciless Infected Response Unit from imprisoning their kind in the inescapable quarantine zone. But when a vengeful group called the Followers rises from the ashes of their assassinated leader to turn unprecedented numbers of humans into vampires, they put the blood balance echelon on the brink of collapse. Neve must navigate fierce alliances, betrayals, and hidden agendas as she joins forces with rival factions to fight a war brewing on two fronts. When she plans a...

"Temple Trouble" is a sci-fi novella by author H. Beam Piper, published in 1957. It is part of his "Paratime Police" series. In this extremely intricate and complex story the Paratime Police faces the trouble and potential dangers of travellers in parallel times... and there might be millions of parallel times! "Were you waiting long, gentlemen?' Stranor Sleth asked. 'I was holding Sunset Sacrifice up in the temple.' 'No, we just got here,' Brannad Klav said.

In book 3, a construction worker inexplicably walks off a high-rise beam, plunging to his death, and a woman on hospice is murdered. Rose Brighton, a Birmingham, Alabama police detective and a witch of House of Rose, hunts for the connection and the killer, because the next person on his list is Rose herself.

The Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment -- a way of measuring a person's empathy and identifying the potential for anti-social behaviour. In a few days' time, Iceland will vote on whether to make the test compulsory for every citizen. The nation is bitterly divided. Some believe the test makes society safer; others decry it as a violation. As the referendum draws closer, four people - Vetur, Eyja, Tristan and Ólafur - find themselves caught in the teeth of the debate.

In the near future, climate change has hit hard; unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter DC Police Detective Jen B. Lu and her partner, Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain providing an instant link to the internet and police records. As a detective in the Elder Abuse Unit, Jen is supposed to be investigating kids pushing their aging parents to exit so that they’re eligible to get the longevity drug. But what really has her attention are the persistent rumors about Eden, a black-market version of the longevity drug.

It's been three years since police Detective Darby Shaw found out she's a superhuman who can revive the murdered. In that time, she and the Department of SuperHuman Affairs have had a tumultuous relationship. But when one of their agents ends up dead in her jurisdiction, Darby must set aside her hate in order to pursue justice, especially with the Department hostile to her and Mark.

A superstar American athlete is on the cusp of breaking an iconic sport’s record when he is gunned down! The murder is declared a hate crime, but no suspect is ever captured. His tragic shooting is the last straw; public upheaval forces the country to divide into two massive states: the super-progressive Frontier State and the ultraconservative Pilgrim State. Sixty years later, Pilgrim State’s Detective Merit decides to crack the historic shooting. Can this gun-toting, God-fearing detective survive the culture shock of Frontier’s lawless society in time to unravel the mystery?

It’s March 2034, six months after D.C. police detective Jen Lu and Chandler, her sentient bio-computer and wannabe tough guy implanted in her brain, cracked the mystery of Eden. The climate crisis is hitting harder than ever: a mega-hurricane has devastated the eco-system and waves of refugees pour into Washington, D.C. Environmental lawyer and media darling Patty Garcia dies in a bizarre accident on a golf course. Of the seven billion people on the planet, only Jen thinks she was murdered.

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Agentin Kimberley Reynolds ist beim FBI zuständig für seltsame, übernatürliche und schlichtweg okkulte Dinge. Leider gibt es in den Keller-Akten beklagenswerte Lücken, so dass sie nach dem rätselhaften Anruf eines Ex-Kollegen ziemlich blindlings nach Wisconsin reisen muss. Ungünstigerweise hat dort ein Eistornado Stadtverwaltung und Polizeirevier in einen Trümmerhaufen verwandelt und Patrick Henderson ist spurlos verschwunden. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass er gewaltsam entführt wurde - von etwas, das kein Mensch war.

USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed anti‑Semitism. The country is in the firm grip of McCarthy's Hueys, a secret police force evolved from the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood's sparkling vision of the American dream has been suppressed; its remaining talents forced to turn out endless anti‑communist propaganda.

After Jake shoots and kills a murder suspect who turns out to be the son of a powerful city councilman, he finds himself demoted to the Artificial Crimes Unit, tracking down androids hacked and programmed to be hit men. When his case of an “extra-judicial” divorce settlement takes a nasty turn with DNA from a 100-year-old murder in Boston and a signature that harkens back to the very first serial killer ever in London, Jake finds himself tangled up in the brutal slayings of prostitutes being investigated by his former Robbery/Homicide partner, Maddie - who is now his lover.

Corrupted blood. A government conspiracy. Rival vampires unravel a dark truth. Neve Traxon and her vampire faction keep their heads down in a new city, evading a clandestine organization hellbent on annihilating their kind. But when Neve uncovers a series of sinister abductions by a vicious vampire known only as the Priest, she refuses to sit on the sidelines. As the Priest leaves a trail of carnage in his wake, the perilous game of cat and mouse might cost Neve the only true friends she’s ever known. While his rogue actions fuel a vampire society teetering on the edge of exposure, Neve ...

In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But according to witnesses, he may not have done this of his own accord. Lisbon 2021. A small percentage of the population are diagnosed as Gifted. Along with the power comes stigma and suspicion. In a prejudiced city, Gifted Inspector Isabel Reis is hiding her own secrets while putting her life on the line to stop an ingenious killer.

Young billionaire Sebastian Montero has hunted killers for 700 years, the murder of his baby brother still haunting his dreams. After a teenage girl is ritually butchered, Sebastian joins the LAPD in their search for the man known as "the Voodoo Killer".