Has anyone read the Grimnoir Chronicles?

[Mari]

If so do they remind you of the Dresden Files? Not because of the magic stuff, or anything of that sort. Just the quality of the writers.
Because I have found that besides those two sets of books there really isn't much good fiction out there.
I don't care for Simon green. I like Richard Cadre Sandman Slim novels well enough. And everything else seems to be written for teenage girls.
If anyone can suggest anything else, I am all ears....just no superhero Buffy expys. If I so much as read about a sullen teenage girl that can fight like a veteran marine sergeant, and who needs to decide between various supernatural suitors who all love her, I get ill.

[Allison]

try J. F. Lewis's Void City series.

[Noel]

Are you looking for urban fantasy, specifically? I'd recommend The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne and the Miriam Black series by Chuck Wendig.

[sailor _stuck_at_sea]

I'm partial to Mike Carey's Felix Castor series.

[Howard]

I second the Felix Castor recommendation and will add in Crimes against Magic by Steve McHugh.

I also can't get into Simon Greens books and haven't tried the Sandman Slim books yet.

I am also on the same page as your are when it comes to books written for teenage girls. I have picked up several books that sounded interesting on the jacket cover but put them down when I realized they were more about the strange romance that the urban fantasy. If I wanted to read romance novels there is a whole section specifically for that in the books store and that is a section I steer clear from . . . :-)
on the topic of the Iron Druid series, I have read the first three books and the third book pout me off if the series altogether, but recently I have seen a number of folks talk about how the third book was a turning point of sorts and that in book four things started to get better, so I will likely give book four a shot. I mean, even I can admit that, though I liked books one and two of the Dresden Files, things didn't really get moving until book three. I do thing that, at least for me, Butcher did a better job of creating an interesting protagonist.

[sailor _stuck_at_sea]

Howard wrote: "I second the Felix Castor recommendation and will add in Crimes against Magic by Steve McHugh.

I also can't get into Simon Greens books and haven't tried the Sandman Slim books yet.

I am also on ..."

I'll third(?) the Felix Castor books. I'm currently on the third book and I have to say it's refreshing to see such a different take on the genre (To my reading experience at least)
Mike Carey manages to avoid the pitfall that so many genre authors fall in, namely that they make all the character's problems too fantastic to the point where the character have to become larger than life, which makes them clash with the somewhat down to earth tone usually found in the genre. Felix Castor has to deal with a lot of fairly mundane problems throughout the story. This gives us an entryway into the character, something we can relate to. This makes the "Big Issue" much easier to handle. With Harry it's paying the rent, his feelings for Murphy, trying not to work himself into the ground, etc...
Mike Carey manages to catch that same thing, which makes Felix Castor so much easier to empathise with. The fact that he has a flair for comedic descriptions doesn't hurt either. His comments on the Czarist great coat alone is pure gold.

[Yutg]

I love Larry Correa's work another example would be: Hellequin Chronicles series by Steve McHugh - This like Dresden too.
There is also a book called Libriomancer. I started it but was sidetracked by other genre's I like.

[Ian]

After discovering the Dresden Files I moved onto and really enjoyed the Peter Grant series by Ben Aaronovitch. Definitely not for teenage girls, although there is a lightness of touch and humour. It is, however, set in London and about an English Policeman in case that puts you off. Mind you, the Alex Verus series is also set in London - it's becoming a bit of an urban fantasy hotspot!

[Anand]

Harry connolly's 20 palace saga is a good one.Its one of the under appreciated ones out there.Jim himself has praised that book.Alex versus gets more and more better as you go up..but iron druid does the opposite.
Tim marquitz's demon squad is very different take.God and satan has forsaken the world.Angels and demons are duking it out..in a world full of big and powerful bullies.. our hero,satan's nephew,a pervert and a perpetual underdog and a habitual punch bag is having interesting times.. always...
Ben aaronovitch's london rivers is a good one.funny but a bit low on adrenaline with good characters..

Everyone says myk cole's shadow ops is good .but i dont know.