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"Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died - for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker - walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she''s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases. Pioneer Square''s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the underground - the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper''s friend Quinton believes he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate. But the killer is no mere murderer - it is a creature of ancient legend. And Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to stop the monster and its master unless they stop her first." -- Provided by publisher.

View our feature on Kat Richardson''s Greywalker. Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she''s a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she''s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases. In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper''s been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper''s investigation reveals something else entirely-they''ve succeeded. And when one of the group''s members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human. Read Kat Richardson''s posts on the Penguin Blog.

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. A quarter century ago, the Seawitch cruised away from her dock and disappeared with everyone on board. Now the boat has mysteriously returned to her old berth in Seattle and the insurance company has hired Harper to find out what happened—but she’s not the only one investigating. Seattle police detective Rey Solis is a good cop, albeit one who isn’t comfortable with the creepy cases that always seem to end up in Harper’s lap. As Solis focuses on the possible murder of a passenger’s wife, Harper’s investigation leads her to a powerful being who may be responsible for the Seawitch’s disappearance. While their searches lead Harper and Solis in different directions, they will need to put aside their differences to solve a mystery twenty-five years in the making.…

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. When a comatose woman suddenly wakes up and starts painting scenes she’s never witnessed, with a skill she’s never had, medical science has no explanation. As more bizarre phenomena manifest, including strange voices coming from her mouth, even her doctors wonder whether the woman may be possessed. Frustrated and frightened, the patient’s sister turns to Harper to discover who—or what—is occupying her sister’s body. As Harper digs into the case, she discovers other patients struck with the same mystifying afflictions and a disturbing connection to one of the most gruesome episodes in Washington’s history....

Harper Blaine is on the mend, but evil never rests--in the latest novel from the national bestselling author of Labyrinth and Seawitch. Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world of the Pacific Northwest and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases. After being shot in the back and dying—again—Harper has lost many of her powers. Now, if the Greywalker dies one more time, she won’t be coming back. Harper’s only respite from the chaos is her work. But while conducting an investigation in the Olympic Peninsula, she sees a ghostly car accident and finds a victim who insists he was murdered, blaming the nearby picturesque community of Sunset Lakes—called “Blood Lake” by locals. Harper soon learns that beneath the icy waters of the lake hides a terrible power and a host of hellish beings—both of which are held under the thrall of a sinister cabal that will use the darkest of arts to achieve their fiendish ends…

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker, treading the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And these abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases.... Turmoil, sickness, and destruction are sweeping through Europe—and its effects are being felt all the way across the world in Seattle. Harper Blaine and her lover, Quinton, suspect that Quinton’s father, James Purlis—and his terrifying Ghost Division—are involved. Following a dark trail of grotesque crimes and black magic across the Old World, the pair slowly draws closer to their quarry. But finding and dismantling the Ghost Division won’t be enough to stop the horror that Purlis has unwittingly set in motion. An ancient and forgotten cult has allied with Quinton’s mad father. And their goals are far more nightmarish than Harper and Quinton—or even Purlis—could ever imagine. The pursuit leads to Portugal, where the desecrated tomb of a sleeping king and a temple built of bones recall Harper’s very first paranormal case and hold clues to the cult’s true intentions. Harper and Quinton will need all the help they can get to avert a necromantic cataclysm that could lay waste to Europe and drag the rest of the world to the brink of war.

u200bA modern noir thriller with a paranormal twist set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Prohibition has just ended, and the US is still struggling in the depths of the Great Depression. But for notorious playboy and ex-bootlegger Marty Storm, life couldn’t be better. Only his best friend knows about his knack for water magic—and for making “problems” disappear—though no one knows his family’s shipping business was built on sorcery and murder. When he’s accused of a gruesome murder, he knows he’s been framed, but corrupt cops and his conscience aren’t his only problem. Vengeful spirits, a little girl with a strange connection to the Los Angeles River, a crate full of trouble, and broken memories, force him to unwind the horrifying secrets of his own past and return to the dark heart of his family in the bayous outside New Orleans. With some unlikely allies both new and old, Marty must confront the ugly source of his family’s fortune and power. Murder, magic, love, death, and family: Marty Storm has come to the tipping point of his life, whether he knows it or not, and to control his destiny, he’ll take a desperate plunge into dark magic he swore he’d never use.

To find the ghost of her killer-and rescue her father-Harper Blaine will have to enter into the Grey. And with her growing powers pulling her deeper into that paranormal world, she''s afraid she may not be able to come back out.

After a savage, near-fatal attack, private detective Harper Blaine discovers that she has become a Greywalker, and now has the ability to move between the ordinary world and a mysterious, cross-over zone populated by monsters.

Four bestselling fantasy authors present a collection of novellas about dark nights, cruel cities, and paranormal P.I.s—featuring Harry Dresden, John Taylor, Harper Blaine, and Remy Chandler. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher delivers a story in which Harry Dresden—Chicago''s only professional wizard—tries to protect a friend from danger and ends up becoming a target himself... John Taylor is the best PI in the secret heart of London known as The Nightside. He can find anything. But locating the lost memory of a desperate woman may be his undoing in a thrilling noir tale from New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green... National bestselling author Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep when a job in Mexico goes awry, and Harper Blaine is enmeshed in a tangle of dark family secrets and revenge from beyond the grave... An ancient being that lived among humanity for centuries is dead, and fallen angel-turned-Boston detective Remy Chandler has been hired to find out who—or what—murdered him in a whodunit by national bestselling author Thomas E. Sniegoski...

Not bound, as a book. Free. The new anthology from Shawn Speakman embodies that magical idea.

The toughest case yet for Greywalker Harper Blaine... Why did Seattle investigator Harper Blaine-as opposed to others with near-death experiences-become a Greywalker? When Harper digs into her own past, she unearths some unpleasant truths about her father''s early death as well as a mysterious puzzle. Forced by some very demanding vampires to take on an investigation in London, she soon discovers her present trouble sin England are entangled with her dark past back in Seattle-and her ultimate destiny as a Greywalker.

A crimefighter with mysterious powers hunts a deadly cult in a brilliant collaboration by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, and more. Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she''s become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories . . . Nora''s parents were killed when she was nineteen years old. She took the life insurance money and went off to explore the world, becoming a student of meditation and strange magic in a mountaintop monastery in Nepal . . . a history that many would realize sounds suspiciously like the origins of several comic book characters. As Nora starts to pick apart her memory, it all begins to unravel. Her parents are dead, but the rest is a series of lies. Where did she get the power inside her? In Indigo, an all-star lineup of New York Times bestsellers and award winners—Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore, Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, and Mark Morris—join forces to bring you a crime-solving novel like you''ve never read before.

Sam and Rachel slip into a quiet Washington waterfront town, posing as a psychic medium and her hard-edged partner for an exclusive weekend at a remote mountain resort. Their sights are set on a guilty rich man, a charity art auction, and a "haunted" sculpture that might be the perfect hook for their next big score-if they can keep the act under control and the ghosts, real or not, from biting back. Ghost Image by Kat Richardson is a moody, ghost-tinged installment of A Grifter''s Song, the crime fiction series created by Frank Zafiro.

At the intersection of the normal and the weird, lies the Grey: a place where whatever you believe in hard enough comes to dangerous life, and death, magic, and the unexpected lie in wait. The journey begins with a ghost''s pleas for justice that lead paranormal PI Harper Blaine to an unsuspected crime. Ranging from harrowing to humorous, these ten tales from the imagination of best-selling author Kat Richardson travel into the realms of mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and more: Share a drink with a reindeer on the run. Discover a young genius whose nightmares may be the key to a post-apocalyptic world''s return to the sunlight. Meet a witty woman warrior and her wisecracking dragon companion. Accompany Detective Rey Solis on a strange case of bank robbery. Confront a mysterious figure in a magical tower. Befriend menacing clockwork dogs. Accompany an undead thief on one Hell of a job. Enter a roadside dive where a salesman''s life takes a comic turn for the worst. Explore a Mexican graveyard with Harper Blaine on the Day of the Dead. This volume includes two previously unpublished pieces, as well as the limited-edition version of the Harper Blaine story Chemotherapy, and two other tales from the Greywalker universe. Enter the Grey and let the journey begin.