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A touch of noir detective, a lot of sarcasm, derring-do, magic tossing, and misbehaving beings from various paranormal pools are all the norm in award winning urban fantasy author J.B. Dane's Raven Tales series. Before magic user PI Bram Farrell (aka The Raven) appeared in The Raven Tales novels, he had a life in fictionland where he was the lone cash strapped investigator for Raven Investigations in a fictional version of Detroit. Not that he knew he was a fictional character, which he is on the cusp of learning in Raven's Rest. Collected here in one volume are the five novella length tales of some of those prequel cases. RAVEN FOR A SONG: Damsels in distress really muck up a guy’s day. Particularly when they think he’s just the schmuck to come to the rescue…whether he wants to or not. But a paying job is a paying job, so when Bram is hired by a siren to track and punish a serial killer targeting young non-human females of various species, he finds the stack of cash waved in his face pushes reluctance to get involved away and takes the case. MOCK RAVEN: His identity stolen, a murder rap pending, and a family of harpies thirsting for his blood, does not make a comfortable lifestyle…or a paying job for PI Bram Farrell. 5* “Awesome book. I read it in one sitting! It was so much fun! Spinning comedy is among Dane’s finest talents." RAVEN'S ANCIENT: A soothsayer set up the job to track a missing artifact that may or may not have made its equally missing owner immortal. Magic tossing PI Bram Farrell is sure there’s gotta be something wrong with this picture. RAVEN'S DJINN: It’s the kind of gift that grants wishes but that doesn’t mean they need to be used as expected. PI Bram Farrell deals with a bottle of djinn in a tale that’s got more “derring” than Bram wants to do. RAVEN'S REST: Watson's concern over Holmes having gone missing--and having mentioned "fairies" the last time the doctor saw him--has Bram stuck plungi