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Vampires don't exist, do they? That is a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up in a case involving a string of dead redheads and the usual dose of weirdness San Francisco has to offer. To complicate things, Mandolin has to deal with the perception that he has become the latest golden boy of the fog city's crime boss. Then there's his cross-dressing friend Frankie.... Just another day in San Francisco.

San Francisco's only PI with an eye into the supernatural, is having one of those months. His bad mood drives him to his local pub where he encounters his latest client, a Leprechaun who's lost his adopted niece, a runaway Dryad, and that's where the problems begin. Some days it pours and when Landau Bain, the city's crankiest wizard, arrives on Tony's doorstep, he knows what's coming down isn't rain.

Over the years, San Francisco's Private Investigator with an eye into the World of the Weird, caps intentional, Tony Mandolin has tackled vampires, demons, dragons, pixies, and various members of the world of the fae, and assorted things beyond description. All of them had one goal, the death of a certain PI. Most of Tony's cases occupy a set of volumes, twelve of them, with more to come. However, a few of those cases were brief enough, pun intended, to fit into a shorter narrative. This collection holds the best of them. Enjoy with a pint of Anchor's best and one of Bunty's dogs.

All families come with their own unique problems, but when that family is a clan of Eastern European vampires led by an extremely wealthy viscount living it up in a luxurious, imported castle, only Tony Mandolin can solve the problem. San Francisco's only flatfoot with an eye into the weird runs into trouble with a pregnant werewolf. Tony swears he never laid a hand on her. Now someone's burning the city's more corrupt citizens alive from the inside out. Needless to say, the city fathers are not pleased.

San Francisco’s only PI to the paranormal is back… and this time it’s personal. Tony Mandolin wakes up with a toothache from h***—literally. Someone turned one of his molars into a magical time-bomb set to blow his head into red mist. Thanks to a quick-thinking bartender and a blood-forged pendant that’s running on fumes, Tony survives. Barely. While he’s still looking for whoever wanted him dead, Police Chief Monahan drags him into a new case: a U.S. Congressman impaled through and through with a nine-iron on the 18th hole of America’s snootiest country club. The method is ...

Someone is poisoning San Francisco's foodies. Tony Mandolin, the fog city's only Private Eye with a view into the supernatural, has been retained to find out whom and why. Unfortunately this brings him to the attention of Medb, the Queen of the Unseelie Court and it seems that Tony's only hope of survival lies in the hands of Landau Bain, the alcoholic wizard, and Bain is cranky.

Over the past decade, Tony Mandolin, Fog City's top Private Eye has had his share of the weird and horrifying. If asked, he would say his life has been a stumble from one cliche to the next, but none of that prepared him for what was coming down the tracks. What does a world-weary PI do when his client is a centuries-old witch?

Over the past several years, Tony Mandolin has had dealings with the Devil. During those times the guy from way down below has wound up on the losing end, but in their last encounter, the Devil lost one of his lieutenants, permanently and now he is pissed. Tony had been dropped into the world of fairy tales by someone Lucifer would prefer you not mention, and while there, San Francisco’s only PI of the weird managed to thoroughly mess up a scheme millennia in the making, so now, even if it gets him a shortcut to the pit of fire, Satan wants his pound of flesh, plus about another 200. And ...

It's unsettling when your work lands on your neighbor's doorstep. When you're Tony Mandolin, the bay area's PI to the weird, it's more than a problem. When it's a family of Garden Gnomes who've lost their pet, expect catastrophe. And then a new case lands in Tony's lap that has ramifications that lead all the way to Washington DC and it involves a child slavery ring.

The war was only the beginning. Now something far worse is coming. While the Southern Empire licks its wounds and Duke Bilardi descends into madness and dark sorcery, an ancient horror known only as the Destroyer stirs beneath the world. Its shadow stretches toward Grisham like black plague, and the prophecy that began with two orphaned twins is racing toward its bloodiest verse.Adam and Charity—separated by war, politics, and destiny—are finally reunited in the tunnels beneath a dying city. One heartbeat of joy in a storm of steel and sorcery. But joy never lasts long in the Milward ...

In the salt-crusted pirate haven of Weller’s Landing, where cutthroats drink beneath the sign of The Angry Tooth tavern, a dying dragon’s only hope lies in a legend older than sin itself: the blood-red Gem of Li—the Gwillt’hir Stone.Belkantihr, once a terror of the skies, now wastes away under an ancient curse. His last chance rests with Bandoor, a jaded mercenary who trusts coin more than comrades, and an unlikely band of outcasts drawn together by desperation and greed.There’s Falu, the sharp-tongued, fox-eared Llwyn bard whose songs hide sharper secrets; Tusse Hull, a mountain ...

The prophecy is no longer a whisper. It is the thunder of thirty-three thousand boots marching on Grisham. While the Southern Empire sharpens its blades and Gilgafed pulls ancient horrors from the shadows, the Promised Twins fight on separate fronts, each believing the other might already be lost.Adam—now a captain forged in blood and fire—stands on Grisham’s walls, his shaping magic growing wilder and more dangerous with every spell. One mistake could save the city… or shatter it forever. Beneath those same walls, forgotten tunnels hide secrets older than the Empire—and monsters ...

In a world where prophecy is real and magic comes with a price, two orphaned twins are about to discover they were never ordinary. Adam and Charity have spent their lives at the bottom of the barrel in a sleepy village—poor, parentless, and constant targets for the mayor’s spoiled son. But when an ancient wizard reveals they are the Promised Ones, heirs to the legendary Philosopher King Labad, everything changes. Armed with a sword and bow forged of pure spirit-power, the twins are thrust into a brewing storm: a dark sorcerer named Gilgafed hungers to tear the empire apart, fanatical ...

The prophecy has begun. The darkness is waking. And the Promised Ones are no longer children. Book 2 of the bestselling Milward Chronicles plunges deeper into the heart of classic epic fantasy. After the blood-soaked events of The Promised Ones, the four heirs have scattered — each carrying a piece of the shattered prophecy and a power they barely understand. The fire-wielder hunts the forbidden Library of Ash The soul-blade swordsman descends into the underworld to bargain with death itself The blind seer races to stop the Blood Moon’s final rise And the lost prince must choose between...

From the throne room of Ortia to the slave pits of Southpointe, one name is whispered in terror: Angbar. An ancient sorceress of unspeakable power, she twists the living into monsters, topples emperors with a smile, and feeds on despair the way dragons feed on fire.While corrupt councilors plot to murder the Emperor and frame an innocent boy-wizard for the crime… While Duke Bilardi rots in chains, screaming prophecies no one believes… While Charity faces a marriage alliance that could save or doom an entire nation…Adam—now a father, a captain, and the most dangerous shaper alive—...

When Tony Mandolin upset the plans of the international child slavery ring, he had no idea just how far up the chain the consequences of doing that would run. Now he has a Vatican wetwork team after him and they have no problem taking out whoever is between them and a certain San Francisco PI. To add to the chaos, someone has figured out how to make paper money in the city deadly to the touch. Pickpockets are dropping like flies, and guess who has to solve the mystery in order to prove he's innocent?

Tony Mandolin, San Francisco’s only PI to the supernatural, gets yanked through a portal into the Grimm dimension—where fairy tales are real, and a lot darker than the bedtime versions. Snow White’s a scandal-plagued mess, her seven dwarves are horny, and Little Red Riding Hood runs a detective agency with the Big Bad Wolf as her partner. When enchanted murders start piling up and a conspiracy threatens to spill nightmare creatures into our world, Tony has to solve the case with sarcasm, a decent beer, and his partner Frankie. Poison apples, wicked witches, and zero chance of a happy ...

Someone is messing around with Luck. In a city with some of the largest underground gambling organizations in the world, Tony Mandolin, San Francisco's Private Eye to the weird, finds himself neck-deep in Cartels, Triads, and Russians, and the Russians want their money back. Soon our world-weary, cynical PI winds up in a card game where the loser has to give up a whole lot more than just his chips. And then things shift to a whole new level of insanity.

They were never meant to feel this much. When the exploration ship Magellan is torn apart in deep space, humanity learns the hard truth: we are not alone—and the things out there want us dead. The enemy has no name, only the chilling nickname pilots whisper across the void: Bugs. In answer, Earth’s military does the unthinkable. They fuse the minds of their convicted felons into living supercomputers—quantum-linked warriors who think, move, and kill as one. They call them Tankers. Lad is the newest link in the chain, a convicted innocent from the Star Force Academy. Every time the ...

When did the weird become my normal life? That's Tony Mandolin's feeling when he has to deal with the original Count Dracula…and a massive hangover…at the same time. What does a rumpled private investigator do when the original wants to reunite with his estranged, "teetotalling" vampire family and figures Tony's just the guy to solve all his problems? And then there's this rogue dragon, the secret all librarians share, and an issue the Castro district thinks only Tony can solve. Ah... life.