I left for a while, but I did come back, to make my living doing what I do better than anyone else: finding things--lost or stolen, real or imaginary.
Recently, I found the most dangerous thing of all: the true identity of my long-gone mother. Turns out she's a being who's been around since before the dawn of history. Then, she created the Nightside--and now, for her own warped reasons, she intends to destroy it.
To stop her before she even gets started, I've got to do some hard traveling--back in Time, through endless eons, into the very distant--and probably deadly--past...
"A macabre and thoroughly entertaining world." - Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files
"Fast paced and amusing, as well as packed with inventive details."--The Denver Post
"Fast, fun, adventurous detection in a setting in which nearly anything's possible." - Booklist
"Sam Spade meets Sirius Black...inventively gruesome." - Entertainment Weekly
"Superlative...An intricate and action-filled plot that seamlessly blends crime and the
supernatural." - Publishers Weekly
"Readers who prefer their gore with huge melodramatic flourishes and a side of slyly amusing repartee will find Joh Taylor at least the equal of Jim Butcher's Chicago wizard PI Harry Dresden." - Kirkus Reviews
"Cross The X-Files with The Twilight Zone, add a pinch of The Outer Limits and a dash of Eerie, Indiana, and one might have a glimmer of an idea what the Nightside is like." - BookBrowser
"Totally enjoyable...take a vacation into the Nightside...just try not to get lost in it." - Crimespree
"A captivating tale starring a heroic and endearing character whose thoughts when he is in danger are hilarious." - Midwest Book Review
"Taylor is the Sam Spade for the twenty-first century, willing to stare down an angel, a demon, or a god. [The] Nightside has the meanest of the mean streets, and John Taylor is right at home there." - Fantasy Literature