John A. Miller (1) (1946–)

This urban fantasy features Noah Morgan, an ex-attorney and ex-con who works as a "Consultant".

This story follows Noah as he searches for a priceless stolen violin. Meanwhile good guys, bad guys, and all of the underworld are searching for him believing he alone knows the whereabouts of some even more priceless stolen jewels.

Noah is not your average unlicensed PI, however. Noah can see auras. Sometimes. And Noah has a pet tarantula named Josephine. And a scary gypsy-looking lady following him around. And Noah has vampires who want to steal his life force, and a faerie who'd like something even more personal from him.

It is a complicated, ethical, mystifying and mysterious, and thoroughly enjoyable and satisfying read.… (more)

suffers from a problem I've seen in too many baseball novels: the sense that the writer is writing about the wrong decade of baseball, with the wrong sort of players, with names that do not exactly go with a set of men that would be playing major league baseball in 1996 or later....
that and what comes off as general unrealism in the baseball scenes. I realize a lot of baseball novels are not exactly mimetic fiction, but it's hard, so hard, to get the tone right, and what should be humorous exaggeration falls flat.… (more)