false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172260131m/155421.jpg 155421 5 John Taylor is not a private detective <i>per se</i>, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside, an otherworldly realm in the center of London where fantasy and reality share renting space and the sun never shines. <br><br> For John Taylor, there's no place like home... 150023 27 5 2003 Something from the Nightside (Nightside, #1) total:1159|5:298|4:447|3:310|2:89|1:15| 1159 4401 1568 158 5 4 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sun Dec 30 14:19:24 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 14:23:56 -0800 2007
"You can find anything in the Nightside-if it doesn't find you first. John Taylor is not a private detective per se, but he has a knack for finding lost things. That's why he's been hired to descend into the Nightside,...more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Jun 20 15:24:20 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 31 11:48:33 -0700 2009
I've had this on my bookcase for over a year and I finall...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sat Jan 31 10:33:59 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 10:34:23 -0800 2009 3 2 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 15:20:50 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 13:14:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Sep 10 10:08:11 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 10 10:08:55 -0700 2007 Simon R. Green – 1st in mystery/fantasy series
John Taylor, in search of a runaway girl, was born in Nightside, an area of London “where it’s always 3 a.m. Where you can walk beside myths and drink with monsters. Where nothing is what it seems an...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jun 25 06:32:02 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 18:35:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 05:57:27 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 06:15:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 13:03:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 10:17:54 -0800 2009
I have never been a huge fan of hard-boiled detective novels and the cliches of that genre don't appeal...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Sep 19 08:29:51 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 08:30:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Apr 02 09:56:31 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 14:42:49 -0700 2008 awesome fantasy arc, but far too much of every book is spent on infodumping, in loving detail, all of the fun that the author had worldbuilding. I found I was too jaded to get int...more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:30:23 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 08:39:40 -0700 2009
This is a good example: the premise is fine, although the plot ends predictably. But ...more...]]> 3 0 true false Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:25:01 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:26:02 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 23:12:28 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 23:20:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:05:14 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 12:14:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 15:29:15 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 21:15:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 06:19:57 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 06:23:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 16:20:58 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 04:44:39 -0700 2009 Mike Carey I've been enjoying.

In Something From the Nightside, we first meet our protagonist John Taylor in self-imposed exile in London. The Nightside, a place where it...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 14:29:50 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 10:26:32 -0800 2009 Something from the Nightside, Simon Green takes a Sam Spade/Raymond Chandler archetype in an occult setting and marches it through a series of fantastic encounters. This isn't the sort of mystery where a series of clues build to a climactic insight so much as an elongated chase. The order of enc...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 16:20:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 16:24:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:19:28 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 21:25:09 -0700 2009 Mean Streets, and I'm hoping it stays that way. I als...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=155421