Certain recs please?
Having been rereading Gaiman, specifically the Ocean book and also Rivers of London series of books, novellas etc something along those lines.
Not your American style, full of action, rushing about, shooting (magical equivalents) type thing, more the calm english style of Sherlock…calmly going about and collecting evidence, battling the forces (quietly) and whatever. But NOT YA books.
Rather like Lettie and the sewing needle and her bucket or Peter Grant and his microscope, and apron for the apples and so on.
A Dr Who type of tale. Doesn't have to be English, just more that style. NOT Jim Butcher and not DeLint. Never could get into theirs well. Not crazy about Patricia Briggs either.
I have read Tainted Cup but it's not what I am after.
Any ideas? Kind of the 2 cities style, doesn't have to be a detective book
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Max Gladstone’s Craft sequence, maybe? Daniel José Older?
Try *A Dead Djinn in Cairo*/*A Master of Djinn* by P. Djeli Clark.
ETA: Seanan McGuire’s October Daye and Incryptid series will also answer, and you might also check out Tanya Huff’s Victoria Nelson books as well as the Smoke trilogy, and the *Enchanment Emporium* series
Also Silvia Moreno-Garcia, especially *Certain Dark Things* and *Gods of Jade and Shadow*. Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond books are a good laugh.
I really enjoyed the [Witches of Lychford](https://www.goodreads.com/series/181219-lychford) series by Paul Cornell. It’s a series of six novellas (five are out, the sixth and final one is out in September). Ticks all your boxes, I think. Lizzie, Autumn (both mid-20s I think) and Judith (older) are all awesome the stories read like books despite the shorter length.
[Hellblazer](https://www.goodreads.com/series/59856-hellblazer) might work for you.
Small Miracles by Olivia Atwater