Titanshade

by Dan Stout

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Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its oil reserves run dry, the city's future hangs on a possible investment from the reclusive amphibians known as Squibs.

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This sorta urban fantasy is more than a few degrees off from our world. Some things are like us but then there are several other races living with humans. There is disco and 8 track players and magic users that use a substance called manna to power their spells. Manna has run dry and the old in Titanshade is also running out. Wind power is coming thanks to the Squibs investment but not everyone wants to give up on the oil fields. Carter is cop that isn’t held to the highest regard in the department even if he can close cases. He is dispatched to a murder scene in a hotel that the victim is a diplomat with the Squib contingent negotiating wind power generation. Carter is partnered with a rookie detective to keep him out of trouble and show more the press’ eye. Ajax is a Mollenkampi who can’t be any different than Carter, he is a college graduate and doesn’t have a world weary view. The rest of the book has them working together as Cater goes to trust his new partner. The rest of the plot is a typical buddy cop mystery and I enjoyed it very much. The ending has major consequences to this story universe and I’m interested to see where it goes.


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Ah, the old 80's movie vibe. Liked it :)

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Anderson, Katie (Cover designer)
McGrath, Chris (Cover artist)

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Canonical title
Titanshade
Original publication date
2019
Dedication
To the person who always found time to read to me from my favorite book.
Even when it was the dictionary.

This book has my name on it, but it should have hers as well.
Maryann Stout
Publisher's editor
Gilbert, Sheila E.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
LCC
PS3619 .T6973 .T58Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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