Basic premise: Urban fantasy stories that center around mysteries/detectives.

I hate George RR Martin on a personal level at this point. His SOIAF series has pissed me off to the point that I have been unable to continue reading it. So here I have a volume of stories set in my favorite genre, edited by GRRM. There's a fantastic introduction to the book, defining UF and the connections it has to the mystery genre. Then he proceeds to give me an overly-large volume of mostly "meh"-level stories, some of which are only VERY loosely tied to the UF genre. And on top of it all, there's no Harry Dresden story in an anthology seemingly tailored to the concept of Dresden. Grrrrr....

Generally speaking, UF stories take place in the modern (or very near modern) day. WWII? Ok, I can deal with that. Ancient Rome?? Ancient Babylon??? WTF???? Some of these stories didn't even have an actual fantasy element to them, just a "possible" fantasy element that got disproven, making the stories NOT UF at all, but regular mysteries, if set in odd time periods.

I'm hacked off. I renewed this book from the library twice in order to finish the bloody thing and still paid a late fine. It's only real saving grace in my mind is the Patricia Briggs offering, which features Warren instead of Mercy. The Charlaine Harris story was ok, but I don't find Dahlia to be a particularly interesting/sympathetic character, so I can't get into the few stories I've seen about her.

Stupid GRRM. I'm going to go read something by an author who's dead already so I won't feel the urge to go out and murder someone anymore.