Is there no end to Simon Green's creativity? He shoots, he scores with one-off novel DRINKING MIDNIGHT WINE, a fantasy about an ordinary man who follows a beautiful woman through a door into a magical realm and suddenly finds he's the focal point in the battle for the fate of the world. It's a little too weird in the end when a vicious character is unexpectedly revealed as a good guy, but still a wonderful tale.
In GHOST OF A CHANCE, which I'm still reading, he launches a trio of ghost hunters who destroy evil hauntings. In the first chapter, an ordinary grocery-store parking lot is the locus for an ancient horror. Believably menacing shopping carts! I love his great characters, J.C., the self-important but courageous leader of the team; Melody, who's comfortable only with the massive amounts of technology she brings to the hunt, and Happy, the nearly deranged telepath, who's frightened all the time by what he can see, and is only mellowed by his numerous drugs.
Um, I've got to lay off Simon Green for a while after this. He goes into real horror here, and actually has horror scenes pretty much in every book. I have to read some pages peeking through my fingers.
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