Introducing Garrett, P.I. is a compilation of the first three books (Sweet Silver Blues, Bitter Gold Hearts, and Cold Copper Tears) in Glen Cook’s Garrett, P.I. series. Fantasy noir detective stories — and, yes, I just wrote a book that is a fantasy noir detective story. I’m hardly going to pretend that I don’t like this series, but Shamus Tom Vargas ain’t Garrett. They’d get along, but they ain’t twins or anything like that.
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When Sweet Silver Blues came out, I avoided it at first because I didn’t think the man who wrote the Black Company books could write fantasy noir detective stories.
A friend persuaded me to take a look and boy, was I wrong. Glen Cook can write.
Fun fact: Glen Cook wrote these early Garrett PI as well as Black Company and Dread Empire while employed at a GM plant where the machine requires his attention every couple of minutes for a couple of seconds.
Great series.
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Sweet Silver Blues is better than Bitter Gold Hearts and Cold Copper Tears, but the series doesn’t peak until Old Tin Sorrows and Dread Brass Shadows. Those two were something special.
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Angry Lead Skies is iffy. (He was wrapping the series up, giving Garrett a happily ever after, and giving us a chance to say goodbye to all the colorful characters we’d met along the way.
The story itself was an afterthought that invited fridge logic.
If you hadn’t been following the series for years, just wallowing in nostalgia probably isn’t going to be that attractive.)
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I’ve heard Wicked Bronze Ambition is good. (It comes after Angry Lead Skies, and it rips away the happy ending in an attempt to relaunch the series. That’s just too depressing for words. I hadn’t read it, and don’t really plan to.)