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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
  1. 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.

    Shares:
    • grimy
    • neon-lit
    • chaotic
    • cynical
  2. 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.

    Shares:
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
  3. 03

    Half-resurrection blues

    Daniel José Older

    A shadowy, supernatural mystery that explores the eerie, liminal space between the living and the dead.

    Shares:
    • gritty
  4. 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.

    Shares:
    • snarky
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
    • the burden of power
  5. 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.

    Shares:
    • adrenaline-fueled
    • gritty
    • the burden of power
  6. 06

    Already dead

    Charlie Huston

    A blood-soaked, hardboiled descent into a nocturnal Manhattan where the undead are just another flavor of organized crime.

    Shares:
    • grimy
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
  7. 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.

    Shares:
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
  8. 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.

    Shares:
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
  9. 09

    Hard magic

    Larry Correia

    A gritty, high-octane collision of 1930s noir and explosive magical combat.

    Shares:
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
    • reluctant heroism
  10. 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.

    Shares:
    • grimy
    • chaotic
    • cynical
  11. 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.

    Shares:
    • cynical
    • hardboiled
    • gritty
    • reluctant heroism
  12. 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.

    Shares:
    • chaotic
    • adrenaline-fueled
    • snarky
    • gritty

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