{"product_id":"lightning-runes-city-of-shadows-2","title":"Lightning Runes (City of Shadows, Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles after the Second World War has vampires, zombies and demons living among its ordinary citizens. Harry Turtledove's hard-boiled detective takes a case built on a dead body, a vanished musician and rune magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook two of the City of Shadows series; the publisher presents it as a standalone mystery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHard-boiled detective story crossed with urban fantasy, set in 1940s Los Angeles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 304 pages, CAEZIK SF \u0026amp; Fantasy, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe killing at the center of the case runs on magic, which puts it beyond the reach of the Los Angeles police. Following it takes the detective from Central Avenue's jazz clubs to the repair bays of neighborhood garages, where rune magic is feeding a new source of power that the ordinary city does not yet understand. Turtledove tells it in a noir first person, with the supernatural treated as one more part of the city's underworld.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of classic private-eye fiction, alternate history and urban fantasy will find all three here. The series began with \u003cem\u003eTwice as Dead\u003c\/em\u003e. New readers can begin with this book, and anyone who wants the city's earlier case can go back to the first one afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarry Turtledove is a New York Times bestselling author whose honors include the Hugo and Sidewise Awards, and Publishers Weekly has called him the Master of Alternate History. He lives in the San Fernando Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CAEZIK SF \u0026 Fantasy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48026722631829,"sku":"VB-Z1K1-9UB6","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/upload-1789784915866.jpg?v=1789784917","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/lightning-runes-city-of-shadows-2","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}