Book Review: A Troll Walks into a Bar, by Douglas Lumsden

Considering my love of detective stories, especially noir, hard-boiled types, and urban fantasy it wasn’t a big surprise I jumped right on this.

What to Expect

Expect a classic detective story like Raymond Chandler or Dashiel Hammet, but set in an alternate world suffused with magic. The protagonist, through whose eyes the story is told, is able to work some magic (summon air elementals). There are others who can control elementals, but more noticeably are the races: gnomes, trolls,...