false <![CDATA[Staying Dead (Retrievers, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255991144m/426550.jpg 426550 2 <b>Manhattan's night life just got weirder . . .</b> It starts as a simple job -- but simple jobs, when you're dealing with the magical world, often end up anything but. As a Retriever, Wren Valere specializes in finding things gone missing -- and then bringing them back, no questions asked. Normally her job is stimulating, challenging and only a little bit dangerous. But every once in a while . . . Case in point: A cornerstone containing a spell is stolen and there's a magical complication. (Isn't there always?) Wren's unique abilities aren't enough to lay this particular case to rest, so she turns to some friends: a demon (minor), a mage who has lost his mind, and a few others, including Sergei, her business partner (and maybe a bit more?). Sometimes what a woman has to do to get the job done is enough to give even Wren nightmares . . . 415600 2004 Staying Dead (Retrievers, #1) total:273|5:43|4:110|3:92|2:19|1:9| 273 978 506 36 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 23:06:04 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 21:00:52 -0700 2009 Someone has stolen the cornerstone of a very large busi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 09:23:29 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 07:24:29 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 08:56:18 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:09:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 23 18:55:35 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 14:47:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 12 12:45:13 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 12 14:33:09 -0800 2007
As with Staying Dead, Laura Anne Gilman's first book in the Retrievers series.

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It's modern fantasy variant #7: mages/magical animals/etc. are in hiding, have their own politics and so forth. Butcher, Buffy, yadda yadda yadda.

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