Cheryl R. (Spuddie) - , reviewed on 7/14/2007 + 412 more book reviews

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First in the Garrett Files series, which is a genre-bending series featuring a hard-boiled PI in a fantasy world with gnomes, elves, dwarves and other strange cross-breeds. Garrett is a human. He is awakened early one morning by a family of short people whose brother/son was an old army buddy of Garrett's. They ask him to look into his death--well, not so much his death, which seems to have been an accident, but to find out why he left everything--which is a questionably obtained horde of silver they found hidden in the basement--to a woman they don't know. The law stipulates that she be contacted to see if she is able to or wants to claim the estate. This woman just happens to be an old love of Garrett's, so naturally he's intrigued and sets out to look into it. The woman lives in a war-torn region and is apparently married to someone else and finding her proves most difficult and dangerous. Interesting premise, interesting characters, and mostly enjoyable though I found it a little heavy on the violence and beer swilling and a little light on character development and details.

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