Hamilton's Anita Blake (before the series turned into erotica), you're going to love Unshapely Things. If you like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan and Laurell K. Mark Del Franco's world is well-realized, he's got both strong male and female characters, and he really knows how to keep the reader engaged and interested. When a serial killer begins cutting up fey male hookers, taking their hearts, and replacing them with magical stones, Grey assumes theres some powerful magic. In his debut novel, Bostonian Mark Del Franco takes an entirely straight-faced approach to the hard-boiled detective/police procedural template, keeping the snark to a minimum even when presenting us with dead fey prostitutes. Unshapely Things is one of the best new novels I've read in a long time. Mark Del Franco’s Unshapely Things is another addition to the urban fantasy universe. He quickly discovers that the deaths are magically based and if someone doesn't stop them - the world could have another event similar to the Cataclysm, which brought human and fae worlds together back in 1900. Now, Grey's getting his dose of excitement by helping the humans. He's just a pensioner drawing disability and trying to get himself back together. But after his injury at the hands of an eco-terrorist elf, his own druidic essence is blocked and the posh Guild office and status are gone.

Once upon a time, he'd have headed his own investigation on the part of the Guild, which serves as the fae equivalent of a peace-keeping authority in this newly converged world. Someone's killing fae prostitutes in the Weird, a fringe neighborhood of Boston where the poor and the fae intersect.Ĭonnor Grey, who used to live in much nicer environs, is seeing the effects in his new neighborhood - and he's been called in by his friend Murdock on the Boston Police Department to help with the investigation. Rambles.NET: Mark Del Franco, Unshapely Things Mark Del Franco,

Unshapely Things by Mark Del Franco