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A blood-soaked, neon-drenched joyride through the supernatural underbelly of Los Angeles with a chain-smoking antihero. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Kill City blues.
- grimy
- neon-lit
- chaotic
- adrenaline-fueled
- 01
Sandman Slim
Richard Kadrey
A whiskey-soaked, blood-spattered joyride through a grimy supernatural Los Angeles with a protagonist who literally crawled out of Hell.
- 02
Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim)
Richard Kadrey
A gritty, ticking-clock supernatural thriller where a half-dead antihero races through a shadowy Los Angeles to pay off a demonic debt.
- 03
Half-resurrection blues
Daniel José Older
A shadowy, supernatural mystery that explores the eerie, liminal space between the living and the dead.
- 04
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher
A gritty, snark-fueled descent into a supernatural underworld where the stakes are high and the hero is perpetually outgunned.
- 05
Summer Knight
Jim Butcher
A gritty, sarcastic urban fantasy where a down-on-his-luck wizard battles through grief and deadly faerie politics to save the world.
- 06
Already dead
Charlie Huston
A blood-soaked, hardboiled descent into a nocturnal Manhattan where the undead are just another flavor of organized crime.
- 07
Just another judgement day
Simon R. Green · 2009
A gritty supernatural noir where a cynical detective races to stop an unstoppable, apocalyptic force from cleansing a shadowy city of sin.
- 08
The good, the bad, and the uncanny
Simon R. Green
A gritty, supernatural noir where a cynical detective is thrust into a deadly power vacuum in a shadowy, magical London.
- 09
Hard magic
Larry Correia
A gritty, high-octane collision of 1930s noir and explosive magical combat.
- 10
A madness of angels, or, The resurrection of Matthew Swift
Kate Griffin
A frantic, neon-lit plunge into a hidden, magical London where the city's grime and electricity pulse with dangerous life.
- 11
The Devil You Know
Mike Carey
A gritty, sarcastic descent into a haunted London where the ghosts are dangerous but the living are worse.
- 12
A Fistful of Charms (Rachel Morgan, Book 4)
Kim Harrison
A gritty, high-octane supernatural road trip fueled by snark, dangerous magic, and the messy consequences of trusting the wrong people.











